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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kenneth Gross |
ISBN: | 0226309886 9780226309880 0226309894 9780226309897 |
OCLC Number: | 44046720 |
Description: | x, 282 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Ch. 1. Rumor of Hamlet -- Ch. 2. Book of the Slanderer -- Ch. 3. Disturbance of Hearing in Vienna -- Ch. 4. Denigration and Hallucination in Othello -- Ch. 5. War Noise -- Ch. 6. King Lear and the Register of Curse -- Coda. Imaginary Theater. |
Responsibility: | Kenneth Gross. |
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Abstract:
This work explores Shakespeare's deep fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of speaking - especially rumour, slander, insult, vituperation and curse - and through them offers a vision of the work of words in his plays.
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