Shakespeare's NoiseUniversity of Chicago Press, 2001 - 282 Seiten "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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... abuse are impulses which link them to language at its most revelatory , liberating , and humaniz- ing . The study of ... abuses of speech also open up a realm of fan- tasy otherwise unavailable to the hero ; it shows us an erotic life ...
... abuse are impulses which link them to language at its most revelatory , liberating , and humaniz- ing . The study of ... abuses of speech also open up a realm of fan- tasy otherwise unavailable to the hero ; it shows us an erotic life ...
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... abused fames , both mythical and historical ; it showed characters wrestling with forms of compromised glory , tempting the audience's desire to see both the mask and what was behind the mask , ad- justing degrees of shame and exposure ...
... abused fames , both mythical and historical ; it showed characters wrestling with forms of compromised glory , tempting the audience's desire to see both the mask and what was behind the mask , ad- justing degrees of shame and exposure ...
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... 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 demonic possession . Slander ...
... 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 demonic possession . Slander ...
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... abuse that can still astonish . 13 Contemporary legal writings about slander , including the records of ac- tual slander trials , have been especially helpful in trying to understand the complex implications of verbal abuse . It is ...
... abuse that can still astonish . 13 Contemporary legal writings about slander , including the records of ac- tual slander trials , have been especially helpful in trying to understand the complex implications of verbal abuse . It is ...
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... abuses of Leontes in The Winter's Tale would offer a useful completion to my discussion of Othello . Finally , there is that troubling strain in Shakespeare's later sonnets , which expose the eerie convertibility of praise and slander ...
... abuses of Leontes in The Winter's Tale would offer a useful completion to my discussion of Othello . Finally , there is that troubling strain in Shakespeare's later sonnets , which expose the eerie convertibility of praise and slander ...
Inhalt
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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