Voice in Motion : : Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England / / Gina Bloom.
Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early modern idea...
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Bloom, Gina, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Voice in Motion : Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England / Gina Bloom. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013] ©2007 1 online resource (288 p.) : 5 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Material Texts Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. From Excitable Speech to Voice in Motion -- Chapter 1. Squeaky Voices: Marston, Mulcaster, and the Boy Actor -- Chapter 2. Words Made of Breath: Shakespeare, Bacon, and Particulate Matter -- Chapter 3. Fortress of the Ear: Shakespeare's Late Plays, Protestant Sermons, and Audience -- Chapter 4. Echoic Sound: Sandys's Englished Ovid and Feminist Criticism -- Epilogue. Performing the Voice of Queen Elizabeth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early modern ideas about the efficacy of spoken communication spring from an understanding of the voice's materiality. Voices can be cracked by the bodies that produce them, scattered by winds when transmitted as breath through their acoustic environment, stopped by clogged ears meant to receive them, and displaced by echoic resonances. The early modern theater underscored the voice's volatility through the use of pubescent boy actors, whose vocal organs were especially vulnerable to malfunction.Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marston, and their contemporaries alongside a wide range of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century texts-including anatomy books, acoustic science treatises, Protestant sermons, music manuals, and even translations of Ovid-Bloom maintains that cultural representations and theatrical enactments of the voice as "unruly matter" undermined early modern hierarchies of gender. The uncontrollable physical voice creates anxiety for men, whose masculinity is contingent on their capacity to discipline their voices and the voices of their subordinates. By contrast, for women the voice is most effective not when it is owned and mastered but when it is relinquished to the environment beyond. There, the voice's fragile material form assumes its full destabilizing potential and becomes a surprising source of female power. Indeed, Bloom goes further to query the boundary between the production and reception of vocal sound, suggesting provocatively that it is through active listening, not just speaking, that women on and off the stage reshape their world.Bringing together performance theory, theater history, theories of embodiment, and sound studies, this book makes a significant contribution to gender studies and feminist theory by challenging traditional conceptions of the links among voice, body, and self. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) English drama 17th century History and criticism. English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism. Sex role in literature. Voice in literature. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. bisacsh Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812240061 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201314 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812201314 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812201314/original |
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Bloom, Gina, Bloom, Gina, Voice in Motion : Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England / Material Texts Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. From Excitable Speech to Voice in Motion -- Chapter 1. Squeaky Voices: Marston, Mulcaster, and the Boy Actor -- Chapter 2. Words Made of Breath: Shakespeare, Bacon, and Particulate Matter -- Chapter 3. Fortress of the Ear: Shakespeare's Late Plays, Protestant Sermons, and Audience -- Chapter 4. Echoic Sound: Sandys's Englished Ovid and Feminist Criticism -- Epilogue. Performing the Voice of Queen Elizabeth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. From Excitable Speech to Voice in Motion -- Chapter 1. Squeaky Voices: Marston, Mulcaster, and the Boy Actor -- Chapter 2. Words Made of Breath: Shakespeare, Bacon, and Particulate Matter -- Chapter 3. Fortress of the Ear: Shakespeare's Late Plays, Protestant Sermons, and Audience -- Chapter 4. Echoic Sound: Sandys's Englished Ovid and Feminist Criticism -- Epilogue. Performing the Voice of Queen Elizabeth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. From Excitable Speech to Voice in Motion -- Chapter 1. Squeaky Voices: Marston, Mulcaster, and the Boy Actor -- Chapter 2. Words Made of Breath: Shakespeare, Bacon, and Particulate Matter -- Chapter 3. Fortress of the Ear: Shakespeare's Late Plays, Protestant Sermons, and Audience -- Chapter 4. Echoic Sound: Sandys's Englished Ovid and Feminist Criticism -- Epilogue. Performing the Voice of Queen Elizabeth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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