| #2337239 in Books | University Of Chicago Press | 2001-04-01 | 2001-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.88 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | |||
“This coolly scholarly study digs into the insults, slanders, vituperation and cursing that Shakespeare used to enliven and empower his prose. Its dark and noisy passages give defamation a good name.” |
"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 ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Shakespeare's Noise | Kenneth Gross. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
