Shakespeare's NoiseUniversity of Chicago Press, 2001 - 282 oldal "You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate / As reek o'th'rotten fens, whose loves I prize / As the dead carcasses of unburied men / That do corrupt my air: I banish you!" (from Coriolanus) Kenneth Gross explores Shakespeare's deep fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of speaking—especially rumor, slander, insult, vituperation, and curse—and through them offers a vision of the work of words in his plays. Coriolanus's taunts or Lear's curses force us to think not just about how Shakespeare's characters speak, but also about how they hear, overhear, and mishear what is spoken, how rumor becomes tragic knowledge for Hamlet, or opens Othello to fantastic jealousies. Gross also shows how Shakespeare's preoccupation with "noisy" speech echoed and transformed a broader cultural obsession with the perils of rumor, slander, and libel in Renaissance England. Elegantly written and passionately argued, Shakespeare's Noise will challenge and delight anyone who loves his plays, from scholars to general readers, actors, and directors. |
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... especially if we recall the word's older associations with disturbance , quarrel , and scandal . 1 We are faced with words whose force depends exactly on how they are repeated , obscured , interrupted , stolen , buried , or misheard by ...
... especially if we recall the word's older associations with disturbance , quarrel , and scandal . 1 We are faced with words whose force depends exactly on how they are repeated , obscured , interrupted , stolen , buried , or misheard by ...
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... especially given the actors ' power endlessly to transform their iden- tity on stage . Most relevant here , perhaps , is the fact that the Renaissance the- ater provided occasions for playwrights and players to explore multiple , always ...
... especially given the actors ' power endlessly to transform their iden- tity on stage . Most relevant here , perhaps , is the fact that the Renaissance the- ater provided occasions for playwrights and players to explore multiple , always ...
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... especially given a culture preoccupied with dangers ( both real and imagined ) of civil discontent , aristocratic conspiracy , and religious faction- alism . For Stefano Guazzo , whose La conversazione civile was translated into English ...
... especially given a culture preoccupied with dangers ( both real and imagined ) of civil discontent , aristocratic conspiracy , and religious faction- alism . For Stefano Guazzo , whose La conversazione civile was translated into English ...
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... especially helpful in trying to understand the complex implications of verbal abuse . It is precisely as a legal category that slander reveals some of its crucial ambiguities , both conceptual and , as it were , dramatic . For one thing ...
... especially helpful in trying to understand the complex implications of verbal abuse . It is precisely as a legal category that slander reveals some of its crucial ambiguities , both conceptual and , as it were , dramatic . For one thing ...
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