Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern England (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction: Tongues of fire; How to do things with words (Romeo and Juliet, treatises on rhetoric); The rhetoric of slander (Othello, The Orator); The law of slander (treatises on the law);The brokers of oral reputation (treatises on the law, The Devil's Law Case, A Cure for a Cuckold, The Merry Wives of Windsor); Femininity between praise and slander (Il Pastor Fido, The Devil Is an Ass, Love's Victory); The Poisoned Tongue (treatises on slander, Lingua); The tongues of Pentecost (treatises on the tongue, Mary Sidney's Psalm translation); The slandered heroine (Othello, The Tragedy of Mariam); Bibliography; Index.