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Forensic Shakespeare / Quentin Skinner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skinner, Quentin, author.
- Series:
- Clarendon lectures in English.
- Clarendon lectures in English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Quentin Skinner highlights the use of judicial rhetoric in some of Shakespeare's most famous works, shedding new light on Shakespeare's reading and the intellectual base of his work.
- Contents:
- Classical rhetoric in Shakespeare's England
- Shakespeare's forensic plays
- The open beginning
- The insinuative beginning
- The failed beginning
- The judicial narrative
- Confirmation: juridical and legal issues
- Confirmation: the conjectural issue
- Refutation and non-artificial proofs
- The peroration and appeal to commonplaces.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 8, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-105664-2
- 0-19-105663-4
- OCLC:
- 899008266
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