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The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature (Paperback, Revised)
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The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature (Paperback, Revised)
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In the sixteenth century the modern meaning of courtship - 'wooing
someone' - developed from an older sense - 'being at court'. The
Rhetoric of Courtship takes this semantic shift as the starting
point for an incisive account of the practice and meanings of
courtship at the court of Elizabeth I, where 'being at court'
pre-eminently came to mean the same as 'wooing' the Queen.
Exploring the wider context of social anthropology, philology,
cultural and literary history, Catherine Bates presents courtship
as a judicious, sensitive and rhetorically conscious understanding
of public and private relations. Gascoigne, Lyly, Sidney,
Leicester, Essex, and Spenser are shown to reflect in the fictional
courtships of their poetry and prose the vulnerabilities of court
life that were created by the system of patronage. The Rhetoric of
Courtship thus makes an important contribution to Renaissance
cultural history, using the court of Elizabeth I as a test case for
representations of the courtier's role and power in the literature
of the period.
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