The inarticulate renaissance
Subtitle: language trouble in an age of eloquence
By: Carla Mazzio.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780812241389
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Eloquence in literature; English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History; Speech and social status -- England -- History -- 16th century; Speech and social status -- England -- History -- 17th century; Speech in literature; Silence in literature; Rhetoric, Renaissance; Speech, Intelligibility of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The renaissance of mumbling: latinity, reformation polemic, and the mother tongue; title: From fault to figure: the case of Madge Mumblecrust in Ralph Roister Doister; title: Disarticulating community: nation, law, history, and the Spanish tragedy; title: Acting in the passive voice: Love's Labour's Lost and the melancholy of print; title: Feeling inarticulate: on communal vulnerability and the sense of touch in Lingua and Hamlet.