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Gender, Speech, and Audience Reception in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Gender, Speech, and Audience Reception in Early Modern England (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on
the ways in which women responded to the regulation of their
behavior by focusing on representations of women speakers and their
audiences in moments Smith identifies as "scenes of speech." This
new approach, examining speech exchanges between a speaker and
audience in which both anticipate, interact with, and respond to
each other and each other's expectations, demonstrates that the
prescriptive process involves a dynamic exchange in which each side
plays a role in establishing and contesting the boundaries of
acceptable speech for women. Drawing from a wide range of evidence,
including pamphlets, diaries, illustrations, and plays, the book
interprets the various and at times contradictory representations
and reception of women's speech that circulated in early modern
England. Speech scenes examined within include wives' speech to
their husbands in private, private speech between women, public
speech before death, and the speech of witches. Looking at scenes
of women's speech from male and female authors, Smith argues that
these early modern texts illustrate a means through which societal
regulations were negotiated and modified. This book will appeal to
those with an interest in early modern drama, including the
playwrights Shakespeare, Cary, Webster, Fletcher, and Middleton, as
well as readers of non-dramatic early modern literary texts. The
volume is of particular use for scholars working in the areas of
early modern literature and culture, women's history, gender
studies, and performance studies.
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