Shakespeare's NoiseUniversity of Chicago Press, 2001 - 282 pàgines "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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... and Hallucination in Othello 102 Chapter Five War Noise 131 Chapter Six King Lear and the Register of Curse 161 Coda An ImaginaryTheater 193 Notes 209 Index 275 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am indebted in these pages to many friends.
... and Hallucination in Othello 102 Chapter Five War Noise 131 Chapter Six King Lear and the Register of Curse 161 Coda An ImaginaryTheater 193 Notes 209 Index 275 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am indebted in these pages to many friends.
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... King Lear , ed . R. A. Foakes , Arden Shakespeare , 3d ser . ( Walton - on - Thames : Thomas Nelson and Sons , 1997 ) . Quotations from all other plays and poems of Shakespeare are taken from The Riverside Shakespeare , ed . G ...
... King Lear , ed . R. A. Foakes , Arden Shakespeare , 3d ser . ( Walton - on - Thames : Thomas Nelson and Sons , 1997 ) . Quotations from all other plays and poems of Shakespeare are taken from The Riverside Shakespeare , ed . G ...
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... King Lear , is of a different order . Here I focus on the metamorphoses of curse . Curse would seem a rawer kind of utterance than defamation or rumor , less susceptible to mere guile or subterfuge . But the dramatic use of curse in ...
... King Lear , is of a different order . Here I focus on the metamorphoses of curse . Curse would seem a rawer kind of utterance than defamation or rumor , less susceptible to mere guile or subterfuge . But the dramatic use of curse in ...
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... King Lear , and Coriolanus . All are tragedies save Measure for Measure , in which the comic structure is nevertheless under a kind of tragic pressure . I did not choose this group ahead of time . Rather , each play seemed as I wrote to ...
... King Lear , and Coriolanus . All are tragedies save Measure for Measure , in which the comic structure is nevertheless under a kind of tragic pressure . I did not choose this group ahead of time . Rather , each play seemed as I wrote to ...
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... which just begins to form itself at the end of King Lear — where inquiring about " court news , " " who's in , who's out , " becomes a window into " the mys- tery of things . " chapter one THE RUMOR OF ≪ HAMLET ≫ n a Introduction 9.
... which just begins to form itself at the end of King Lear — where inquiring about " court news , " " who's in , who's out , " becomes a window into " the mys- tery of things . " chapter one THE RUMOR OF ≪ HAMLET ≫ n a Introduction 9.
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