Shakespeare's noise
Gross explores the playright's fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of utterance -- rumor, slander, insult, vituperation, and curse -- and how this generates an immense verbal energy in the poetry and on the stage. More broadly, it also reflects a cultural obsession with the power of defamation in Renaissance England
Print Book, English, ©2001
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ©2001
History
x, 282 pages ; 24 cm
9780226309880, 9780226309897, 0226309886, 0226309894
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