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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... stages of revising the book . The text has also benefited from Erik Carlson's expert and nuanced editing . Lastly , my thanks to Alan Thomas for his great care in seeing this book through to print . A senior research fellowship at the ...
... stages of revising the book . The text has also benefited from Erik Carlson's expert and nuanced editing . Lastly , my thanks to Alan Thomas for his great care in seeing this book through to print . A senior research fellowship at the ...
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... stage , because it helps suggest a theater in which the human voice takes shape from the way that language interferes with itself , assumes the power of its own disorder — especially if we recall the word's older associations with ...
... stage , because it helps suggest a theater in which the human voice takes shape from the way that language interferes with itself , assumes the power of its own disorder — especially if we recall the word's older associations with ...
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... stage was a place of scandal , both real and imaginary ; his plays gave form to the uncanny , mutable life of scandal . On this stage otherwise forbidden sights were exposed , analyzed , and also displaced , made at once visible and ...
... stage was a place of scandal , both real and imaginary ; his plays gave form to the uncanny , mutable life of scandal . On this stage otherwise forbidden sights were exposed , analyzed , and also displaced , made at once visible and ...
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... stage . Most relevant here , perhaps , is the fact that the Renaissance the- ater provided occasions for playwrights and players to explore multiple , always shifting registers of outrageous speech , from whispered innuendo to gaudy ...
... stage . Most relevant here , perhaps , is the fact that the Renaissance the- ater provided occasions for playwrights and players to explore multiple , always shifting registers of outrageous speech , from whispered innuendo to gaudy ...
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... stage . " 11 Here verbal abuse is a strange combination of cannibalism and soul theft ; in other texts it gets described variously through metaphors of mur- der , plague , poisoning , rebellion , rape , abortion , witchcraft , and ...
... stage . " 11 Here verbal abuse is a strange combination of cannibalism and soul theft ; in other texts it gets described variously through metaphors of mur- der , plague , poisoning , rebellion , rape , abortion , witchcraft , and ...
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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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