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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... questions similar to those raised by the other forms of ill - speaking . King Lear in particular suggests that curse shares with slander the capacity to spread its violence abroad , even given its apparent impotence . Curse ac- quires ...
... questions similar to those raised by the other forms of ill - speaking . King Lear in particular suggests that curse shares with slander the capacity to spread its violence abroad , even given its apparent impotence . Curse ac- quires ...
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... questions that ran through my head while watching , say , stagings of The Winter's Tale or The Ghost Sonata , Oedipus Rex or a Punch - and - Judy show . Here I speak more immediately about the unsettling presence of the actor in the ...
... questions that ran through my head while watching , say , stagings of The Winter's Tale or The Ghost Sonata , Oedipus Rex or a Punch - and - Judy show . Here I speak more immediately about the unsettling presence of the actor in the ...
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... questions about the spiritual authority and freedom of the church , even as it tested the resources of the individual conscience . For Michel de Mon- taigne , our anxieties about defamation reveal just how radically a person's private ...
... questions about the spiritual authority and freedom of the church , even as it tested the resources of the individual conscience . For Michel de Mon- taigne , our anxieties about defamation reveal just how radically a person's private ...
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... questions of rumor , defamation , vituperation , and curse . The plays do not necessarily form a de- velopmental sequence within Shakespeare's canon . But they suggest a grouping of works that will be , I hope , Introduction 7.
... questions of rumor , defamation , vituperation , and curse . The plays do not necessarily form a de- velopmental sequence within Shakespeare's canon . But they suggest a grouping of works that will be , I hope , Introduction 7.
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