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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... yet the play suggests that these abuses of speech also open up a realm of fan- tasy otherwise unavailable to the hero ; it shows us an erotic life structured around wild hopes and losses , abjections but also strange 2 Introduction.
... yet the play suggests that these abuses of speech also open up a realm of fan- tasy otherwise unavailable to the hero ; it shows us an erotic life structured around wild hopes and losses , abjections but also strange 2 Introduction.
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... shows us a prince with a particularly acute ear for the vicious rumors , the muffled din or " coil " of life at court . These are , as it were , his enemies . Yet covertly slanderous utterance is also a tool for Hamlet , a defensive ...
... shows us a prince with a particularly acute ear for the vicious rumors , the muffled din or " coil " of life at court . These are , as it were , his enemies . Yet covertly slanderous utterance is also a tool for Hamlet , a defensive ...
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... show us how one's self may be found out — rifted , harrowed , released all at once— by the play of another person's words , even as one's own words fall back on the self in violence or distortion . They show us the storm of meanings ...
... show us how one's self may be found out — rifted , harrowed , released all at once— by the play of another person's words , even as one's own words fall back on the self in violence or distortion . They show us the storm of meanings ...
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... show . Here I speak more immediately about the unsettling presence of the actor in the theater , living at once in real space and time , and yet within " a dream of passion . " I consider what it feels like to be a " guilty creature ...
... show . Here I speak more immediately about the unsettling presence of the actor in the theater , living at once in real space and time , and yet within " a dream of passion . " I consider what it feels like to be a " guilty creature ...
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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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