Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern England

by Ina Habermann

This title was first published in 2003. This book examines slander in early modern England as a gendered and theatrical cultural practice.The author explores oral defamation - the negative fashioning of others - in language and rhetoric, social interaction and the law, literature and authorship as well as religion, subjectivity and the body. Since the 'slander triangle', which requires an accuser, an audience and a victim, is inherently theatrical,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138715603
• ISBN13: 9781138715608
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge