LEADER 04878nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910463257803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0131-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201314 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418273 035 $a(EBL)3442145 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053102 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11635128 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053102 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11113029 035 $a(PQKB)10919135 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442145 035 $a(OCoLC)859160920 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26848 035 $a(DE-B1597)448986 035 $a(OCoLC)979575935 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201314 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442145 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748571 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418273 100 $a20061005d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVoice in motion$b[electronic resource] $estaging gender, shaping sound in early modern England /$fGina Bloom 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 0 $aMaterial texts 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-4006-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-265) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction. From Excitable Speech to Voice in Motion -- $tChapter 1. Squeaky Voices: Marston, Mulcaster, and the Boy Actor -- $tChapter 2. Words Made of Breath: Shakespeare, Bacon, and Particulate Matter -- $tChapter 3. Fortress of the Ear: Shakespeare's Late Plays, Protestant Sermons, and Audience -- $tChapter 4. Echoic Sound: Sandys's Englished Ovid and Feminist Criticism -- $tEpilogue. Performing the Voice of Queen Elizabeth -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aVoice 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. 410 0$aMaterial Texts 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aVoice in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aEcho (Greek mythology) in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aVoice in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aEcho (Greek mythology) in literature. 676 $a822/.309353 700 $aBloom$b Gina$0992276 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463257803321 996 $aVoice in motion$92488304 997 $aUNINA