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020			_a9780198816430
082			_a822.33 _bSKI
100			_aSkinner, Quentin
245			_aForensic Shakespeare
260			_bOxford University Press, _c2018 _aOxford :
300			_axii, 356 p. ; _c24 cm
365			_b19.99 _cGBP _d105.90
490			_aClarendon lectures in English
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a'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 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.
650			_aGreat Britain
650			_aConduct of court proceedings
650			_aShakespeare, William, 1564-1616
650			_aLiterary style
650			_aBrabantio
650			_a Cicero
650			_aClaudius
650			_a Desdemona
650			_a Elocutio
650			_aHamlet
650			_a Lago
650			_aJulius Caeser
650			_aMerchant of Venice
650			_aOthello
650			_a Polonius
650			_a Quintilian
650			_a Romeo, Juliet
650			_a Shylocke
650			_aJudicial rhetoric
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