Renaissance Earwitnesses examines how maintaining masculinity on the early modern stage is intimately tied to 'earwitnessing,' or a sense of 'judicious listening' in his reading of plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cary, and Jonson.

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KEITH M. BOTHELO is Assistant Professor of English at Kennesaw State University, USA.

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Preface: Listening in an Age of Truthnapping Introduction: Buzz, Buzz: Rumor in Early Modern England Table Talk: Marlowe's Mouthy Men Bruits and Britons: Rumor, Counsel, and the Henriad 'I heard a bustling rumour': Shakespeare's Aural Insurgents 'Nothing but the truth': Ben Jonson's Comedy of Rumours 'Contrary to truth': Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Rumour