Shakespeare's NoiseUniversity of Chicago Press, 2001 - 282 עמודים "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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 38
עמוד 1
... shape from the way that language interferes with itself , assumes the power of its own disorder — especially if we recall the word's older associations with disturbance , quarrel , and scandal . 1 We are faced with words whose force ...
... shape from the way that language interferes with itself , assumes the power of its own disorder — especially if we recall the word's older associations with disturbance , quarrel , and scandal . 1 We are faced with words whose force ...
עמוד 3
... to such troubled modes of speak- ing and hearing allows me a way into those motives which most deeply shape the plays . In Shakespeare , rumor , slander , and curse turn out to be ways of creating a world , as well as ways Introduction 3.
... to such troubled modes of speak- ing and hearing allows me a way into those motives which most deeply shape the plays . In Shakespeare , rumor , slander , and curse turn out to be ways of creating a world , as well as ways Introduction 3.
עמוד 4
... shape an order , even take on a quasi- ritual form . ( One might point here to the elaborately formalized contests ... shapes assumed by our doubt and suspicion , the contaminated vehicles for our knowledge of others , as well as the ...
... shape an order , even take on a quasi- ritual form . ( One might point here to the elaborately formalized contests ... shapes assumed by our doubt and suspicion , the contaminated vehicles for our knowledge of others , as well as the ...
עמוד 7
... shape ; the voices of law and the voices of private persons interact there often in strange ways . A courtroom is a place where institutional rules , moral idealism , politic fiction , direct coercion , and local knowledge uneasily ...
... shape ; the voices of law and the voices of private persons interact there often in strange ways . A courtroom is a place where institutional rules , moral idealism , politic fiction , direct coercion , and local knowledge uneasily ...
עמוד 16
אנו מתנצלים, אך הגישה לתוכן של עמוד זה מוגבלת.
אנו מתנצלים, אך הגישה לתוכן של עמוד זה מוגבלת.
תוכן
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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