According to Meredith Evans, the rumor as a personification “disables the idea of theater as a place that can separate the true from the false, sound from furious noise.” Rumor plays puppet show towards audience and provokes characters
“surmises, jealousies, conjectures” in the play. A performance is being planned that will feature puppets from false report. Rumor never show the face only wagging tongue. “Why is Rumor here?” (line 23). Rumor asks own question. The question leads audience to believe there is some certain reason why Rumor has to be here.
Clifford Leech gives one answer “Shakespeare needed an introductory speech… both to remind his audience of what had happened at Shrewsbury and to make plain the irony of the false news.” Why should false news be brought to Northumberland if …show more content…
Harry Begger. Jr added comments “Leech correctly observes that these ‘needs’ did not require an unpleasant ‘quasi-morality figure’ who ‘expresses scorn for the credulity of men, and even –though irrelevantly
–for their love of slander” The observation re-raises the question in a different form: “Why is it Rumor that is here?” D.A Traversi thinks Rumor is palpable “because expectations, lies, misconstructions, and bad faith govern [the play].” That is just what happens in the play’s opening scene, where Northumberland receives contradictory information about the outcome of the battle at
“surmises, jealousies, conjectures” in the play. A performance is being planned that will feature puppets from false report. Rumor never show the face only wagging tongue. “Why is Rumor here?” (line 23). Rumor asks own question. The question leads audience to believe there is some certain reason why Rumor has to be here.
Clifford Leech gives one answer “Shakespeare needed an introductory speech… both to remind his audience of what had happened at Shrewsbury and to make plain the irony of the false news.” Why should false news be brought to Northumberland if …show more content…
Harry Begger. Jr added comments “Leech correctly observes that these ‘needs’ did not require an unpleasant ‘quasi-morality figure’ who ‘expresses scorn for the credulity of men, and even –though irrelevantly
–for their love of slander” The observation re-raises the question in a different form: “Why is it Rumor that is here?” D.A Traversi thinks Rumor is palpable “because expectations, lies, misconstructions, and bad faith govern [the play].” That is just what happens in the play’s opening scene, where Northumberland receives contradictory information about the outcome of the battle at