Shakespeare's NoiseUniversity of Chicago Press, 2001 - 282 páginas "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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... knowledge , to grow in se- cret , diffusing itself through almost invisible networks of suspicion . They dramatize the dangers that defamation poses in a world where a person's identity , his or her " fame , " depends so strongly on the ...
... knowledge , to grow in se- cret , diffusing itself through almost invisible networks of suspicion . They dramatize the dangers that defamation poses in a world where a person's identity , his or her " fame , " depends so strongly on the ...
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... knowledge in this play ( curiously connected to the storytelling of ghosts ) . In Measure for Measure , the play's chief rumormonger , Lucio , provides a comic mouthpiece for both psychological and political truth , though his slanders ...
... knowledge in this play ( curiously connected to the storytelling of ghosts ) . In Measure for Measure , the play's chief rumormonger , Lucio , provides a comic mouthpiece for both psychological and political truth , though his slanders ...
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... knowledge of others , as well as the dark forms of speech on which we stake our knowledge of ourselves . 5 Shakespeare discovers a wounding and a self - wounding energy set loose within human speaking . Yet he also he makes such an ...
... knowledge of others , as well as the dark forms of speech on which we stake our knowledge of ourselves . 5 Shakespeare discovers a wounding and a self - wounding energy set loose within human speaking . Yet he also he makes such an ...
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... knowledge uneasily mingle and put each other to the test . Entering into a le- gal conflict involves putting one's stories and desires into a public space , submitting them to very specific sorts of translation . The legal attempt to ...
... knowledge uneasily mingle and put each other to the test . Entering into a le- gal conflict involves putting one's stories and desires into a public space , submitting them to very specific sorts of translation . The legal attempt to ...
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Contenido
The Rumor of Hamlet | 10 |
The Book of the Slanderer | 33 |
A Disturbance of Hearing in Vienna | 68 |
Denigration and Hallucination in Othello | 102 |
War Noise | 131 |
King Lear and the Register of Curse | 161 |
An Imaginary Theater | 193 |
Notes | 209 |
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