"Blanched with Fear": Reading the Racialized Soundscape in Macbeth.

A literary criticism of the play "Macbeth," by William Shakespeare is presented. It examines the racialized sounds of whiteness, the importance of Shakespeare's depiction of whiteness in the play for interpreting blackness, the contextualization of the play's soundscape by the social production of w...

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Publicado en:Shakespeare Studies (Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation) Vol. 50; pp. 33 - 44
Autores principales: BROWN, DAVID STERLING, STOEVER, JENNIFER LYNN
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation 2022
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Sumario:A literary criticism of the play "Macbeth," by William Shakespeare is presented. It examines the racialized sounds of whiteness, the importance of Shakespeare's depiction of whiteness in the play for interpreting blackness, the contextualization of the play's soundscape by the social production of whiteness, and the disorder of the geographical outskirts evoked by Shakespeare via animal sounds heard by the characters.