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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... become privileged , if tragic , forms of 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 ...
... become privileged , if tragic , forms of 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 ...
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... becomes a thing subject to the idle chatter of the libelers and tavern haunters , at the mercy of scandalmongering pam ... become seeds of violence , riot , and rebellion . For theologians like John Calvin , the matter of " scandal ...
... becomes a thing subject to the idle chatter of the libelers and tavern haunters , at the mercy of scandalmongering pam ... become seeds of violence , riot , and rebellion . For theologians like John Calvin , the matter of " scandal ...
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... become a parody of legal process itself , debasing the true work of law even as they hint at more volatile energies that the law itself can never quite contain . ( " Scandal " indeed shares an etymological root with the verb " to scan ...
... become a parody of legal process itself , debasing the true work of law even as they hint at more volatile energies that the law itself can never quite contain . ( " Scandal " indeed shares an etymological root with the verb " to scan ...
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... become so important toward the end of the play are also fed by the power of report . Of course , the authority of ... becomes a window into " the mys- tery of things . " chapter one THE RUMOR OF ≪ HAMLET ≫ n a Introduction 9.
... become so important toward the end of the play are also fed by the power of report . Of course , the authority of ... becomes a window into " the mys- tery of things . " chapter one THE RUMOR OF ≪ HAMLET ≫ n a Introduction 9.
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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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