Performing arguments : debate in early English poetry and drama / by Maura Giles-Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giles-Watson, Maura, author.

Contributor:

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

LUDUS - medieval & early renaissance theatre & drama, 1385-0393 ; vol.17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Debates and debating in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction

Chapter 1 Toward a Performance-Centred Perspective on Rhetoric

1 Guiding Principles

2 Rhetorical Aesthetics and Epistemics

3 Ethos and Ethopoeia

4 Ludic Agonistics

Chapter 2 The Argument Is the Action: Intersections of Rhetoric, Poetry, and Premodern Performance Culture

1 Introduction

2 The Aesthetics of Disputatio

3 Varieties of Rhetorico-Poetic Performance

4 'When Is a Text a Play?'

Chapter 3 Rhetorical Theatre: Middle English Debate Poetry in Performative Perspective

2 Rhetoric, Poetics, and Performance

3 Recovering Rhetorical Theatre

4 Reconstructing Rhetorico-Poetic Performance

5 The Performability of The Owl and the Nightingale

6 Representation and Ethopoeia in Wynnere and Wastoure

7 Unsettled Questions: Lydgate's Disguising at Hertford

Chapter 4 Chamber Theatre: Tudor Humanist Debate Interludes and the Participatory Audience

2 The Thomas More Circle and Rhetorico-Theatrical Aesthetics

3 "An Interlude!"

4 Chamber Theatre and the Activated Audience

5 Reconstructing Tudor Performance Spaces and Audience Experience

6 The Foure PP and Religious Satire

7 The Play of the Wether: Improvisation and Satire at Court

8 A Play of Love and Mock Legal Argumentation

9 Conclusion

Chapter 5 "Who Shall Be Most Right?" Ethos, Eloquence, and Argumentation in Shakespeare's Rhetorical Problem Plays

2 Shakespeare's Rhetorical Culture

3 Fields of Argumentation in the Dramatic Frame

4 Debate in the 'Rhetorical Problem Plays'

5 The Moral Argument in Measure for Measure

6 Pseudo-legal Debate in The Merchant of Venice.

7 Political Debate and Sexual Politics in Troilus and Cressida

8 The "Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric" in Love's Labour's Lost

Epilogue

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 04, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Giles-Watson, Maura. Performing arguments

ISBN:

9789004535305

9004535306

Publisher Number:

40032310315

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