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Shakespeare's Noise
Kenneth Gross
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2001-04
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
ISBN
0226309886
9780226309880
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pKakkIflmqMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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"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.