Shakespeare's NoiseUniversity of Chicago Press, 2001 - 282 Seiten "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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 66
Seite
... Hamlet 10 Chapter Two The Book of the Slanderer 33 Chapter Three A Disturbance of Hearing in Vienna 68 Chapter Four Denigration and Hallucination in Othello 102 Chapter Five War Noise 131 Chapter Six King Lear and the Register of Curse ...
... Hamlet 10 Chapter Two The Book of the Slanderer 33 Chapter Three A Disturbance of Hearing in Vienna 68 Chapter Four Denigration and Hallucination in Othello 102 Chapter Five War Noise 131 Chapter Six King Lear and the Register of Curse ...
Seite
... Hamlet , " first appeared in Raritan : A Quarterly Review . My coda , " An Imaginary Theater , " was first published in The Yale Re- view . Both are reprinted here by permission of the editors . A NOTE ON TEXTS Quotations from the five ...
... Hamlet , " first appeared in Raritan : A Quarterly Review . My coda , " An Imaginary Theater , " was first published in The Yale Re- view . Both are reprinted here by permission of the editors . A NOTE ON TEXTS Quotations from the five ...
Seite
... Hamlet , ed . Harold Jenkins , Arden Shake- speare , 2d ser . ( London : Methuen , 1982 ) ; Measure for Measure , ed . J. W. Lever , Arden Shakespeare , 2d ser . ( London : Methuen , 1965 ) ; Othello , ed . E.A. J. Honigman , Arden ...
... Hamlet , ed . Harold Jenkins , Arden Shake- speare , 2d ser . ( London : Methuen , 1982 ) ; Measure for Measure , ed . J. W. Lever , Arden Shakespeare , 2d ser . ( London : Methuen , 1965 ) ; Othello , ed . E.A. J. Honigman , Arden ...
Seite 2
... Hamlet , and Coriolanus . Slander's myriad dis- guises make it a mortal threat in the world of these plays . Its protean nature and quasi - magical efficacy add to its allure . These works explore the power of a distorting lie to infect ...
... Hamlet , and Coriolanus . Slander's myriad dis- guises make it a mortal threat in the world of these plays . Its protean nature and quasi - magical efficacy add to its allure . These works explore the power of a distorting lie to infect ...
Seite 3
... Hamlet shows us a prince with a particularly acute ear for the vicious rumors , the muffled din or " coil " of life at court . These are , as it were , his enemies . Yet covertly slanderous utterance is also a tool for Hamlet , a ...
... Hamlet shows us a prince with a particularly acute ear for the vicious rumors , the muffled din or " coil " of life at court . These are , as it were , his enemies . Yet covertly slanderous utterance is also a tool for Hamlet , a ...
Inhalt
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 | |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
A. C. Bradley abuse accusation actor Angelo Angus Fletcher audience Aufidius become blessing calls calumny Cambridge character Claudio Cordelia Coriolanus Coriolanus's curse dangerous dead death defamation Desdemona desire disguise drama dream Duke Duke's echo enemies face Faerie Queene false fame fantasy fear feel gestures ghost Hamlet hear hidden human Iago Iago's imagine Isabella Julien Gracq justice Kenneth Burke kind King Lear knowledge lago language Lear's listen London Lucio magical mask means Measure for Measure mouth noise once onstage Othello Oxford play play's Plutarch poison rage Renaissance revenge rumor scandal scene secret sense Shakespeare's shame shows silence slander space speak speakers speech stage storm story strange suggests theater thee thing thou tion tongues Tragedy trans truth turn uncanny University Press utterances violence voice vols Volscian William Empson witch words wounds York