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Author Skinner, Quentin, author.

Title Forensic Shakespeare / Quentin Skinner.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Clarendon lectures in English
Clarendon lectures in English.
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.
Literary style.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge and learning -- Conduct of court proceedings.
Conduct of court proceedings.
Conduct of court proceedings -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
1500-1599
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Skinner, Quentin. Forensic Shakespeare 9780199558247 (OCoLC)890393107
ISBN 9780191056635 (electronic book)
0191056634 (electronic book)
9780199558247
0199558248