Shakespeare's noise / Kenneth Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Kenneth.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Language.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Obscene words.

English language.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Slang.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Technique.

Technique.

Language and culture--England--History.

Language and culture.

Blessing and cursing--England--History.

Blessing and cursing.

Invective in literature.

Drama--Technique.

Drama.

History.

English language--Early modern--Slang.

English language--Early modern.

English language--Early modern--Obscene words.

England.

Physical Description:

x, 282 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Summary:

"Shakespeare's Noise explores the playwright's deep fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of utterance-rumor, slander, insult, vituperation, and curse-and how this generates an immense verbal energy in the poetry and on the stage. Kenneth Gross studies the strange gifts inherent not only in the ways that Shakespearean characters speak, but also in 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 dark and noisy speech echoes and transforms a broader cultural obsession with the power of defamation in Renaissance England.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-273) and index.

ISBN:

0226309886

0226309894

OCLC:

44046720