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Author Skinner, Quentin, author

Title Forensic Shakespeare / Quentin Skinner
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Clarendon lectures in English
Clarendon lectures in English.
Contents Classical rhetoric in Shakespeare's England -- Shakespeare's forensic plays -- The open beginning -- The insinuative beginning -- The failed beginning -- The judicial narrative -- Confirmation: juridical and legal issues -- Confirmation: the conjectural issue -- Refutation and non-artificial proofs -- The peroration and appeal to commonplaces
Summary Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing some of the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays -- Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Hamlet -- and on three early Jacobean dramas, Othello, Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well, Quentin Skinner argues that there are major speeches, and sometimes sequences of scenes, that are crafted according to a set of rhetorical precepts about how to develop a persuasive
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Literary style.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Conduct of court proceedings
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Conduct of court proceedings -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literary style
Conduct of court proceedings
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191056635
0191056634