Book contents
- Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare’s Late Plays
- Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare’s Late Plays
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Texts
- Introduction The Sound of the Voice
- Chapter 1 Bodies and Voices in Coriolanus
- Chapter 2 Tricks of the Voice in King Lear
- Chapter 3 Seeing and Speaking in Pericles
- Chapter 4 Phone and Female Mourning in The Winter’s Tale
- Chapter 5 Voicing Authority in The Tempest
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 1 - Bodies and Voices in Coriolanus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2025
Book contents
- Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare’s Late Plays
- Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare’s Late Plays
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Texts
- Introduction The Sound of the Voice
- Chapter 1 Bodies and Voices in Coriolanus
- Chapter 2 Tricks of the Voice in King Lear
- Chapter 3 Seeing and Speaking in Pericles
- Chapter 4 Phone and Female Mourning in The Winter’s Tale
- Chapter 5 Voicing Authority in The Tempest
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This Chapter considers the significance of voice in Coriolanus, especially the way voices are located within bodies. It shows how the patricians situate their voices in the “worthier” parts of the body and the citizens’ voices in the “worser,” leveraging anti-corporeal and anti-materialist ideologies to authorize their own speech and discredit the citizens’. Nevertheless, the voices in this play are highly mobile. They repeatedly move about within bodies and between bodies, undercutting the patricians’ conservative approach and allowing us to envision radical alternatives. Invoking work by Emmanuel Levinas and Adriana Cavarero, the Chapter concludes by fleshing out these radical alternatives.
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- Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays , pp. 26 - 55Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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