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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... slander and rumor . Fellowships awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities , as well as financial sup- port from the University of Rochester , allowed me the time and freedom to ...
... slander and rumor . Fellowships awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities , as well as financial sup- port from the University of Rochester , allowed me the time and freedom to ...
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... slander , defamation , insult , vituperation , malediction , and curse . Rumor and gossip play a part as well . Such forms of speech are among the playwright's deepest preoccupations . His endless supply of mocks and curses is part of ...
... slander , defamation , insult , vituperation , malediction , and curse . Rumor and gossip play a part as well . Such forms of speech are among the playwright's deepest preoccupations . His endless supply of mocks and curses is part of ...
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... Slander's myriad dis- guises make it a mortal threat in the world of these plays . Its protean nature and quasi - magical efficacy add to its allure . These works explore the power of a distorting lie to infect both public and private ...
... Slander's myriad dis- guises make it a mortal threat in the world of these plays . Its protean nature and quasi - magical efficacy add to its allure . These works explore the power of a distorting lie to infect both public and private ...
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... slanderous utterance is also a tool for Hamlet , a defensive mask , a risky species of theater . Rumor and slander , in fact , become privileged , if tragic , forms of knowledge in this play ( curiously connected to the storytelling of ...
... slanderous utterance is also a tool for Hamlet , a defensive mask , a risky species of theater . Rumor and slander , in fact , become privileged , if tragic , forms of knowledge in this play ( curiously connected to the storytelling of ...
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... slander , and curse just make for good plays ; as subjects for drama , they animate certain basic ener- gies in the medium itself . I have indeed felt at times as if all proper theater were a theater of noise . We should remind ...
... slander , and curse just make for good plays ; as subjects for drama , they animate certain basic ener- gies in the medium itself . I have indeed felt at times as if all proper theater were a theater of noise . We should remind ...
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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