The inarticulate Renaissance : language trouble in an age of eloquence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mazzio, Carla, 1965-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]
Subjects:	English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Eloquence in literature. English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History. Speech and social status > England > History > 16th century. Speech and social status > England > History > 17th century. Speech in literature. Silence in literature. Rhetoric, Renaissance. Speech, Intelligibility of.

Table of Contents:

The Renaissance of mumbling: Latinity, reformation polemic, and the mother tongue
From fault to figure: the case of Madge Mumblecrust in Ralph Roister Doister
Disarticulating community: nation, law, history, and The Spanish tragedy
Acting in the passive voice: Love's labour's lost and the melancholy of print
Feeling inarticulate: on communal vulnerability and the sense of touch in Lingua and Hamlet.