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Shakespeare's Schoolroom places moments of considerable emotional
power in Shakespeare's poetry-portraits of what his contemporaries
called "the passions"-alongside the discursive and material
practices of sixteenth-century English pedagogy. Humanist training
in Latin grammar and rhetorical facility was designed to intervene
in social reproduction, to sort out which differences between
bodies (male and female) and groups (aristocrats, the middling
sort, and those below) were necessary to producing proper English
"gentlemen." But the method adopted by Lynn Enterline in this book
uncovers a rather different story from the one schoolmasters
invented to promote the social efficacy of their pedagogical
innovations. Beginning with the observation that Shakespeare
frequently reengaged school techniques through the voices of those
it excluded (particularly women), Enterline shows that when his
portraits of "love" and "woe" betray their institutional origins,
they reveal both the cost of a Latin education as well as the
contradictory conditions of genteel masculinity in
sixteenth-century Britain. In contrast to attempts to explain early
modern emotion in relation to medical discourse, Enterline uncovers
the crucial role that rhetoric and the texts of the classical past
play in Shakespeare's passions. She relies throughout on the axiom
that rhetoric has two branches that continuously interact:
tropological (requiring formal literary analysis) and transactional
(requiring social and historical analysis). Each chapter moves
between grammar school archives and literary canon, using
linguistic, rhetorical, and literary detail to illustrate the
significant difference between what humanists claimed their methods
would achieve and what the texts of at least one former schoolboy
reveal about the institution's unintended literary and social
consequences. When Shakespeare creates the convincing effects of
character and emotion for which he is so often singled out as a
precursor of "modern" subjectivity, he signals his debt to the
Latin institution that granted him the cultural capital of an early
modern gentleman precisely when undercutting the socially normative
categories schoolmasters invoked as their educational goal.
Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary
circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's Venus and
Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a
wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge,
Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas
Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complexities
of this literary conversation and contribute for the current,
vigorous reassessment of humanism's intended consequences by
drawing attention to the highly diverse forms of early modern
classicism as well as the complex connection between Latin pedagogy
and vernacular poetic invention. Key themes and topics include:
-Epyllia, masculinity and sexuality -Classicism and commerce -Genre
and mimesis -Rhetoric and aesthetics
Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary
circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's Venus and
Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a
wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge,
Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas
Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complexities
of this literary conversation and contribute for the current,
vigorous reassessment of humanism's intended consequences by
drawing attention to the highly diverse forms of early modern
classicism as well as the complex connection between Latin pedagogy
and vernacular poetic invention. Key themes and topics include:
-Epyllia, masculinity and sexuality -Classicism and commerce -Genre
and mimesis -Rhetoric and aesthetics
This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent
connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and
narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and
Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes the foundational yet often
disruptive force that Ovidian rhetoric exerts on early modern
poetry, particularly on representations of the self, the body and
erotic life. Paying close attention to the trope of the female
voice in the Metamorphoses, as well as early modern attempts at
transgendered ventriloquism that are indebted to Ovid's work, she
argues that Ovid's rhetoric of the body profoundly challenges
Renaissance representations of authorship as well as conceptions
about the difference between male and female experience. This
vividly original book makes a vital contribution to the study of
Ovid's presence in Renaissance literature.
This persuasive book describes the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline analyzes what happens when Renaissance authors revisit Ovid's stories of violence and desire, paying close attention to the ways in which his subversive representations of gender, sexuality and the body influence later conceptions of the self and erotic life. This vividly original book makes a profound contribution to the study of Ovid's presence in Renaissance literature.
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