Renaissance earwitnesses : rumor and early modern masculinity / Keith M. Botelho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Botelho, Keith M.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Rumor in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Physical Description:

xvi, 199 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

Renaissance Earwitnesses examines masculinity on the early modern stage through sensory culture. In his reading of plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cary, and Jonson, Keith M. Botelho argues that earwitnessing, or judicious listening, is a vehicle that early modern dramatists used to rethink constructions of male informational authority. Drawing on sound and gender studies and providing close analysis of the circulation of rumor both on and off the stage, Botelho reveals male anxieties to be self-generated, emerging not from female gossip, but from male rumormongering. By rethinking the gendered dimensions of the flow of information, Botelho makes an important contribution to early modern scholarship.

Contents:

1 Table Talk: Marlowe's Mouthy Men 27

2 Bruits and Britons: Rumor, Counsel, and the Henriad 49

3 "I heard a bustling rumour": Shakespeare's Aural Insurgents 75

4 "Nothing but the truth": Ben Jonson's Comedy of Rumors 95.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230619418

023061941X

OCLC:

316829503