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Forensic Shakespeare (Hardcover)
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Forensic Shakespeare (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Lectures in English
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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.
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