Renaissance Earwitnesses [electronic resource] : Rumor and Early Modern Masculinity /
Botelho, K.author.
Renaissance Earwitnesses examines how maintaining masculinity on the early modern stage is intimately tied to 'earwitnessing,' or a sense of 'judicious listening' in his reading of plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cary, and Jonson.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface: Listening in an Age of Truthnapping; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Buzz, Buzz: Rumor in Early Modern England; One: Table Talk: Marlowe's Mouthy Men; Two: Bruits and Britons: Rumor, Counsel, and the Henriad; Three: "I heard a bustling rumour": Shakespeare's Aural Insurgents; Four: "Nothing but the truth": Ben Jonson's Comedy of Rumors; Conclusion: "Contrary to truth": Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Rumor; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-188) and index.
Renaissance Earwitnesses examines how maintaining masculinity on the early modern stage is intimately tied to 'earwitnessing,' or a sense of 'judicious listening' in his reading of plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cary, and Jonson.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern.
Literature.
Theater—History.
Literature—History and criticism.
British literature.
Gender Studies.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literature, general.
Theatre History.
Literary History.
British and Irish Literature.