Shakespeare's sound government : Sound defects, polyglot sounds, and sounding out

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Abstract

Shakespearean sound effects (or sound defects) depend not only on hearing with the eye (as in Sonnet 23) but also on seeing with the ear, including through the vivid reports of the nuntius or messenger who produces not "ocular proof" but what might be called a (potentially unsound) "evidence effect," turning the ear into a substitute oculus or eye (Erasmus 1978:577). ; Issue title: Sound Effects.