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. |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 53.
Pàgina 5
... space that was itself one of the noisiest in the city of London , received by an audience whose own ears could be by turns attentive , foolish , hostile , vulnerable , and dull not to mention " ill - wresting . " If such freedom of ...
... space that was itself one of the noisiest in the city of London , received by an audience whose own ears could be by turns attentive , foolish , hostile , vulnerable , and dull not to mention " ill - wresting . " If such freedom of ...
Pàgina 6
... space . Working on this book involved plunging into what one critic has called " the culture of slander " in Renaissance England . Though I had earlier explored sixteenth - century representations of slander , particularly in writ ...
... space . Working on this book involved plunging into what one critic has called " the culture of slander " in Renaissance England . Though I had earlier explored sixteenth - century representations of slander , particularly in writ ...
Pàgina 7
... space , submitting them to very specific sorts of translation . The legal attempt to define a crime of words , to see what is culpable or innocent in them , re- minds us starkly that the law demands a certain sort of hearing as well as ...
... space , submitting them to very specific sorts of translation . The legal attempt to define a crime of words , to see what is culpable or innocent in them , re- minds us starkly that the law demands a certain sort of hearing as well as ...
Pàgina 8
... space to consider the uses of malediction and witch talk , not to mention the uncanny forms of nocturnal hearing , in Macbeth , or to study the harrowing , almost unanswerable invectives of Timon alongside those of Coriolanus and Lear ...
... space to consider the uses of malediction and witch talk , not to mention the uncanny forms of nocturnal hearing , in Macbeth , or to study the harrowing , almost unanswerable invectives of Timon alongside those of Coriolanus and Lear ...
Pàgina 11
El contingut d’aquesta pàgina està restringit.
El contingut d’aquesta pàgina està restringit.
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
A. C. Bradley abuse accusation actor Angelo Angus Fletcher audience Aufidius become blessing calls calumny Cambridge character Claudio Cordelia Coriolanus Coriolanus's curse dangerous dead death defamation Desdemona desire disguise drama dream Duke Duke's echo enemies face Faerie Queene false fame fantasy fear feel gestures ghost Hamlet hear hidden human Iago Iago's imagine Isabella Julien Gracq justice Kenneth Burke kind King Lear knowledge lago language Lear's listen London Lucio magical mask means Measure for Measure mouth noise once onstage Othello Oxford play play's Plutarch poison rage Renaissance revenge rumor scandal scene secret sense Shakespeare's shame shows silence slander space speak speakers speech stage storm story strange suggests theater thee thing thou tion tongues Tragedy trans truth turn uncanny University Press utterances violence voice vols Volscian William Empson witch words wounds York