Silence | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Bock, Philip K. “‘I Think But Dare Not Speak’: Silence in Elizabethan Culture.” Journal of Anthropological Research 32 (1976): 285-94.
Categorizes different types of silence in Shakespeare's plays. Bock distinguishes between those which imply ambiguity, enhance characterization, express transient emotions, or underscore the nature of the relationships between dramatic characters.
Busia, Abena P. A. “Silencing Sycorax: On African Colonial Discourse and the Unvoiced Female.” Cultural Critique 14 (winter 1989-90): 81-104.
Briefly considers the implications of the physical absence of Sycorax from The Tempest—even though Prospero and Caliban repeatedly allude to her—within the context of a broader discussion of the control of Black women's voices and images in colonialist literature.
Deats, Sara Munson. “The Conspiracy of Silence in Shakespeare's Verona:...
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