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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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| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Literary style.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Conduct of court proceedings.
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Conduct of court proceedings -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1500-1599 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Skinner, Quentin. Forensic Shakespeare 9780199558247 (OCoLC)890393107 |
| ISBN |
9780191056635 (electronic bk.) |
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0191056634 (electronic bk.) |
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9780199558247 |
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0199558248 |
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