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. INDICE: - Preface: Listening in an Age of Truthnapping - Introduction: Buzz, Buzz: Rumor in Early Modern England - Table Talk: Marlowe's Mouthy Men - Bruits and Britons: Rumor, Counsel, and the Henriad - 'I heard a bustling rumour': Shakespeare's Aural Insurgents - 'Nothing but the truth': Ben Jonson's Comedy of Rumours - 'Contrary to truth': Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Rumour
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61941-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés