{"product_id":"shakespeares-noise-paperback-2","title":"Shakespeare's Noise - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKenneth Gross\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eCoriolanus\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Elegantly written and passionately argued, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Noise\u003c\/i\u003e will challenge and delight anyone who loves his plays, from scholars to general readers, actors, and directors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Noise\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKenneth Gross\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at the University of Rochester. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSpenserian Poetics: Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Magic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of the Moving Statue\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47334809239801,"sku":"9780226309897","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UmNkVnlxY3l1RnFqRklZNHdRZWxPUT09_4366b183-ac06-4f6e-9c00-97cffc1f791a.webp?v=1769653196","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/shakespeares-noise-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}