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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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2007
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 5 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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