Shakespeare's NoiseUniversity of Chicago Press, 2001 - 282 "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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... plays . I look most closely at violent or disorderly forms of speaking : slander , defamation , insult , vituperation , malediction , and curse . Rumor and gossip play a part as well . Such forms of speech are among the playwright's ...
... plays . I look most closely at violent or disorderly forms of speaking : slander , defamation , insult , vituperation , malediction , and curse . Rumor and gossip play a part as well . Such forms of speech are among the playwright's ...
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... plays , their ethical conversa- tion . It gives an idiom to silence as much as to speech and lets us better ap ... play suggests that these abuses of speech also open up a realm of fan- tasy otherwise unavailable to the hero ; it ...
... plays , their ethical conversa- tion . It gives an idiom to silence as much as to speech and lets us better ap ... play suggests that these abuses of speech also open up a realm of fan- tasy otherwise unavailable to the hero ; it ...
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... 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 and political truth , though his slanders of authority fall ...
... 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 and political truth , though his slanders of authority fall ...
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... play of another person's words , even as one's own words fall back on the self in violence or distortion . They show ... plays ; as subjects for drama , they animate certain basic ener- gies in the medium itself . I have indeed felt at ...
... play of another person's words , even as one's own words fall back on the self in violence or distortion . They show ... plays ; as subjects for drama , they animate certain basic ener- gies in the medium itself . I have indeed felt at ...
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... plays as things written for the stage , drawing their en- ergy from the strange thing that is theater . My coda , " An ... play , " moved , torn , bored , or baffled by what is onstage . The paradoxical nature of gesture in theater , its ...
... plays as things written for the stage , drawing their en- ergy from the strange thing that is theater . My coda , " An ... play , " moved , torn , bored , or baffled by what is onstage . The paradoxical nature of gesture in theater , its ...
Spis treści
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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