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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... Four Denigration and Hallucination in Othello 102 Chapter Five War Noise 131 Chapter Six King Lear and the Register of Curse 161 Coda An ImaginaryTheater 193 Notes 209 Index 275 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am indebted in these pages to many friends.
... Four Denigration and Hallucination in Othello 102 Chapter Five War Noise 131 Chapter Six King Lear and the Register of Curse 161 Coda An ImaginaryTheater 193 Notes 209 Index 275 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am indebted in these pages to many friends.
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... curse . Rumor and gossip play a part as well . Such forms of speech are among the playwright's deepest preoccupations . His endless supply of mocks and curses is part of what con- tinues most deeply to charm us in the plays , freed as ...
... curse . Rumor and gossip play a part as well . Such forms of speech are among the playwright's deepest preoccupations . His endless supply of mocks and curses is part of what con- tinues most deeply to charm us in the plays , freed as ...
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... curse . Curse would seem a rawer kind of utterance than defamation or rumor , less susceptible to mere guile or subterfuge . But the dramatic use of curse in Shakespeare's plays poses questions similar to those raised by the other forms ...
... curse . Curse would seem a rawer kind of utterance than defamation or rumor , less susceptible to mere guile or subterfuge . But the dramatic use of curse in Shakespeare's plays poses questions similar to those raised by the other forms ...
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... curse just make for good plays ; as subjects for drama , they animate certain basic ener- gies in the medium itself . I have indeed felt at times as if all proper theater were a theater of noise . We should remind ourselves , for ...
... curse just make for good plays ; as subjects for drama , they animate certain basic ener- gies in the medium itself . I have indeed felt at times as if all proper theater were a theater of noise . We should remind ourselves , for ...
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... will make clear how an account of Shakespeare's preoccupation with rumor , slander , and curse can take us to the heart of his theater's power . My questions about noise in the theater resonate within a Introduction 5.
... will make clear how an account of Shakespeare's preoccupation with rumor , slander , and curse can take us to the heart of his theater's power . My questions about noise in the theater resonate within a Introduction 5.
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 |
275 | |
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