Description: Further DetailsTitle: Forensic ShakespeareCondition: NewEAN: 9780198816430ISBN: 9780198816430Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/01/2018Item Height: 233mmItem Length: 154mmItem Width: 19mmItem Weight: 532gAuthor: Quentin SkinnerLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 019881643XDescription: Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing 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 major speeches, and sometimes sequences of scenes, are crafted according to a set of rhetorical precepts about how to develop a persuasive judicial case, either in accusation or defence. Some of these works have traditionally been grouped together as 'problem plays', but here Skinner offers a different explanation for their frequent similarities of tone. There have been many studies of Shakespeare's rhetoric, but they have generally concentrated on his wordplay and use of figures and tropes. By contrast, this study concentrates on Shakespeare's use of judicial rhetoric as a method of argument. By approaching the plays from this perspective, Skinner is able to account for some distinctive features of Shakespeare's vocabulary, and also help to explain why certain scenes follow a recurrent pattern and arrangement. More broadly, he is able to illustrate the extent of Shakespeare's engagement with an entire tradition of classical and Renaissance humanist thought.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Clarendon Lectures in EnglishRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Forensic Shakespeare
Title: Forensic Shakespeare
EAN: 9780198816430
ISBN: 9780198816430
Release Date: 02/01/2018
Release Year: 2018
ISBN-10: 019881643X
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Name: Forensic Shakespeare
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Trial Practice, Shakespeare, General, Europe / Great Britain / General
Item Weight: 21.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Quentin Skinner
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Law, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Clarendon Lectures in English Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
