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Voice and ethics in Shakespeare's late plays / Kent Lehnhof.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lehnhof, Kent Russell, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Coriolanus.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Pericles.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Winter's tale.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest.
- Voice in literature.
- Ethics in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "Breaking new ground in Shakespearean sound studies, Kent Lehnhof draws scholarly attention to the rich ethical significance of the voice and vocality. Less concerned with semantics, stylistics, and rhetoric than with the sensuous, sonorous, and somatic dimensions of human speech, Lehnhof performs close readings of five plays - Coriolanus, King Lear, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest - to demonstrate how Shakespeare's later works present the act of speaking and the sound of the voice as capable of constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing interpersonal relationships and obligations. By thinking widely and innovatively about the voice and vocality, Lehnhof models a fresh form of philosophically-minded criticism that resists logocentrism and elevates the voices of marginalized groups and individuals including women, members of societal "underclasses", racialized persons and non-humans"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Bodies and voices in Coriolanus
- Tricks of the voice in King Lear
- Seeing and speaking in Pericles
- Phone and female mourning in The Winter's Tale
- Voicing authority in The Tempest
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge University Press, viewed December 10, 2025)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lehnhof, Kent Russell, 1970- Voice and ethics in Shakespeare's late plays
- ISBN:
- 9781009613897
- 1009613898
- 9781009613910
- 100961391X
- OCLC:
- 1528508046
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000281539
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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