Shakespeare's NoiseUniversity of Chicago Press, 2001 - 282 pagini "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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... character and action in astonishing ways . The life of such words becomes as much a blessing as a curse ; their hurt embeds an uncanny generosity , since they open up forms of thought and feeling oth- erwise invisible . The violence ...
... character and action in astonishing ways . The life of such words becomes as much a blessing as a curse ; their hurt embeds an uncanny generosity , since they open up forms of thought and feeling oth- erwise invisible . The violence ...
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... character of the slanderer . The most obvious instances are Much Ado about Nothing , Measure for Measure , Othello , The Winter's Tale , and Cymbeline , but the list includes , with different shadings , The Merchant of Venice , Hamlet ...
... character of the slanderer . The most obvious instances are Much Ado about Nothing , Measure for Measure , Othello , The Winter's Tale , and Cymbeline , but the list includes , with different shadings , The Merchant of Venice , Hamlet ...
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... character . 4 Disorderly as these ways of speaking are , they can shape an order , even take on a quasi- ritual form . ( One might point here to the elaborately formalized contests of verbal aggression we find in many cultures , from ...
... character . 4 Disorderly as these ways of speaking are , they can shape an order , even take on a quasi- ritual form . ( One might point here to the elaborately formalized contests of verbal aggression we find in many cultures , from ...
Pagina 7
... characters often find in legal categories of judgment , proof , evidence , and contract a pathway to madness and violence . THE PLAYS I have discussed at most length here are all from the middle of Shakespeare's career : Hamlet ...
... characters often find in legal categories of judgment , proof , evidence , and contract a pathway to madness and violence . THE PLAYS I have discussed at most length here are all from the middle of Shakespeare's career : Hamlet ...
Pagina 8
... character whose extreme , self - destructive postures of rage , even his mysterious interiority , are partly wrested from the very anti - Semitic slanders that wound him . An account of the hallucinatory abuses of Leontes in The ...
... character whose extreme , self - destructive postures of rage , even his mysterious interiority , are partly wrested from the very anti - Semitic slanders that wound him . An account of the hallucinatory abuses of Leontes in The ...
Cuprins
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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