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Voice in Motion
MATERIAL TEXTS
Series Editors Roger Chartier Joan DeJean Joseph Farrell
Anthony Grafton Janice Radway Peter Stallybrass
A complete list of books in the series is available from the publisher.
Voice in Motion Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England
Gina Bloom
PENN University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia
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Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 A Cataloging-in-Publication record is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 978-0-8122-4006-1
For my parents and for Flagg
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Contents
Introduction: From Excitable Speech to Voice in Motion 1
Squeaky Voices: Marston, Mulcaster, and the Boy Actor
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Words Made of Breath: Shakespeare, Bacon, and Particulate Matter 66
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Fortress of the Ear: Shakespeare's Late Plays, Protestant 111 Sermons, and Audience
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Echoic Sound: Sandys's Englished Ovid and Feminist 160 Criticism Epilogue: Performing the Voice of Queen Elizabeth
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Bibliography Index
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
From Excitable Speech to Voice in Motion
[I] s the agency of language the same as the agency of the subject? Is there a way to distinguish between the two? -judith Butler, Excitable Speech1
Writing hundreds of years before poststructuralist theory, French author Fran