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1 online resource |
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Clarendon lectures in English |
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Clarendon lectures in English.
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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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Literary style.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Conduct of court proceedings
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SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Conduct of court proceedings -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literary style
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Conduct of court proceedings
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191056635 |
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0191056634 |
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