Title: Renaissance earwitnesses
First published: 2010
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.
Subjects: English drama, Masculinity in literature, Rumor in literature, History and criticism, Theater, great britain, history, English drama, history and criticism
LC classification: PR658.R86 B67 2010