216 Pages
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Routledge
210 Pages
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Routledge
216 Pages
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Routledge
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The English Renaissance has long been considered a period with a particular focus on imitation; however, much related scholarship has misunderstood or simply marginalized the significance of emulative practices and theories in the period. This work uses the interactions of a range of English Renaissance plays with ancient and Renaissance rhetorics to analyze the conflicted uses of emulation in... Read more
Chapter 1 “Emulation hath a thousand sons”: Emulative Rhetorics in Renaissance England; Chapter 2 “A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant”: Emulation, Rhetoric, and Cruel Propriety in Titus Andronicus; Chapter 3 “Suit the action to the word”: Emulative Self-Fashioning, Decorum, and the Roles of Rhetoric in Hamlet; Chapter 4 “I am what you should be”: Emulation, Ambition, and Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in Jonson’s Catiline; Chapter 5 “Act[ing] an orators part”: Emulation, Rhetoric, and the Limits of Theater in Massinger’s The Roman Actor; Chapter 6 Afterword Emulation’s “thousand sons” and Roman Influence: Conclusions and Implications;
Biography
Vernon Guy Dickson is Associate Professor of English at Florida International University, USA.
'... learned, often-compelling study of emulation in early modern English tragedy ...' Renaissance Quarterly 'For the reader interested in rhetorical scholarship, Dickson's book may be invaluable for the extensive bibliography represented in his footnotes: he provides multiple citations for further reading on almost every major point ... scholars well-versed in emulative theory will find an engrossing and complex treatment of rhetorical patterns in four case study plays.' Early Theatre
