Renaissance earwitnesses
Subtitle: rumor and early modern masculinity
By: Keith M. Botelho.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780230619418
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; Rumor in literature; Masculinity in literature
Description: "Renaissance Earwitnesses examines masculinity on the early modern stage through sensory culture. In his reading of plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cary, and Jonson, Keith M. Botelho argues that earwitnessing, or judicious listening, is a vehicle that early modern dramatists use to rethink constructions of male informational authority. Drawing on sound and gender studies and providing close analysis of the circulation of rumor both on and off the stage, Botelho reveals male anxieties to be self-generated, emerging not from female gossip, but from male rumormongering."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.