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. Renaissance...
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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. 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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-188) and index
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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
