Sound effects

Sound effectsAuthor: Laura Jayne Wright ISBN: 9781526159182 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 02 Nov 2023 Pages: 288 Format: Hardback This book shows that the sounds of the early modern stage do not only signify but are also significant. Sounds are weighted with meaning, offering a complex system of allusions. Playwrights such as Jonson and Shakespeare developed increasingly experimental soundscapes, from the storms of King Lear (1605)

but returns to Mistletoe for his mother's seventieth birthday

they are tested to their very limits

full of diagnostic questionnaires and immediately applicable advice

'What a fun story

Jerry is so anxious to become a clown that he takes a job as assistant to the lion tamer of the Big Top

deserted her when their children were babies

and her own flesh and blood

This sparks the arrival of Lucio

' SARAH MALIK

Year first published: 21 Jun 2017

The White Lie (1915) is a mystery novel by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux

His comparative analysis of the versifications of French and English have enabled him to revise the key terms involved in translating the poetic voice and transposing the poem's versification