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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... violent or disorderly forms of speaking : slander , defamation , insult , vituperation , malediction , and curse . Rumor ... violence that the human tongue does to human ears is one of my subjects here . Equally crucial is the ambivalent ...
... violent or disorderly forms of speaking : slander , defamation , insult , vituperation , malediction , and curse . Rumor ... violence that the human tongue does to human ears is one of my subjects here . Equally crucial is the ambivalent ...
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... violence abroad , even given its apparent impotence . Curse ac- quires the look of something fatal , though also painfully human . It affects both utterer and hearer in uncanny ways ; the curser and the cursed can be connected by an ...
... violence abroad , even given its apparent impotence . Curse ac- quires the look of something fatal , though also painfully human . It affects both utterer and hearer in uncanny ways ; the curser and the cursed can be connected by an ...
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... violence or distortion . They show us the storm of meanings that we both confront and create in our negotiations with a world that is so mu- table , so infinitely capable of disappointing our wishes . They show us the shapes assumed by ...
... violence or distortion . They show us the storm of meanings that we both confront and create in our negotiations with a world that is so mu- table , so infinitely capable of disappointing our wishes . They show us the shapes assumed by ...
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... violence as part of their very dramatic subject matter . 8 I touch on the question of theater variously in what follows , sometimes speculating about the concrete particulars of Shakespeare's stagecraft , sometimes taking theater as a ...
... violence as part of their very dramatic subject matter . 8 I touch on the question of theater variously in what follows , sometimes speculating about the concrete particulars of Shakespeare's stagecraft , sometimes taking theater as a ...
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... violence , riot , and rebellion . For theologians like John Calvin , the matter of " scandal " brought into play criti- cal questions about the spiritual authority and freedom of the church , even as it tested the resources of the ...
... violence , riot , and rebellion . For theologians like John Calvin , the matter of " scandal " brought into play criti- cal questions about the spiritual authority and freedom of the church , even as it tested the resources of the ...
Contenido
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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