'Look with thine ears': A Century of Shakespearean BBC Radio Adaptation.

这个博士项目考察了莎士比亚戏剧的广播作品，重点是从1922年到现在的BBC改编。它考察了这些改编将舞台上的戏剧文本转换为广播的不同方式，不仅通过文字，还通过非语言声音系统，如效果、音乐、麦克风定位和立体声。它还对改编作品进行“近距离倾听”，类似于通过仔细阅读来审查游戏文本的方式。然后分析了它们对原作的修辞和听觉方面的反应。该项目展示了仅仅是口头和听觉的广播改编如何保留了真实的当代去听而不是看戏剧的经验的一部分，并展示了它们如何构成分析莎士比亚戏剧的修辞机制和重新评估原著的听觉维度和经验的重要的、迄今被批评家忽视的资源。该项目将BBC的改编放在更广泛的莎士比亚接受批评历史中，并研究学者们几乎听不到的莎士比亚表演传统。此外，这个项目已经导致了BBC的数字化制作，到目前为止，这种格式只保存在四分之一英寸的磁带上，这种格式会随着时间的推移而退化。因此，它有助于保存原本可能丢失的莎士比亚档案。

This doctoral project examines radio productions of Shakespeare's plays, focusing on BBC adaptations from 1922 to the present. It examines the different ways these adaptations transform a play text intended for the stage into radio, not only through words but also non-verbal sound systems, such as effects, music, microphone positioning and stereo sound. It also carries out 'close listening' of the adaptations, comparable to the way play texts are examined by close reading. It then analyses how these respond to the rhetorical and aural aspects of the original works. The project demonstrates how radio adaptations, being solely verbal and aural, preserve part of the authentic contemporary experience of going to hear, rather than see, a play, and shows how they constitute a vital, hitherto critically neglected resource for analysing the rhetorical mechanics of Shakespeare's plays and for reassessing the aural dimension and experience of the originals. The project locates the BBC adaptations within the wider critical history of Shakespeare reception, and studies a tradition of Shakespearean performance that has been virtually inaudible to academics. In addition, this project has already led to the BBC digitising productions that have only been held on quarter inch tape until now, a format that degenerates over time. Therefore it is helping to preserve what could otherwise become a lost Shakespeare archive.