Quentin Skinner

Forensic Shakespeare

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 679g
• ISBN-13: 9780199558247
• ISBN-10: 0199558248
• Artikelnr.: 42374764

Autorenporträt

Quentin Skinner was born in 1940 and educated at Bedford School and at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of Christ's College in 1962 and appointed to a Lectureship in the Faculty of History at Cambridge in 1965. Between 1974 and 1979 he was based at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Returning to Cambridge, he served successively as Professor of Political Science (1979-1996) and as Regius Professor of History (1996-2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Classical rhetoric in Shakespeare's England
2: Shakespeare's forensic plays
3: The open beginning
4: The insinuative beginning
5: The failed beginning
6: The judicial narrative
7: Confirmation: juridical and legal issues
8: Confirmation: the conjectural issue
9: Refutation and non-artificial proofs
10: The peroration and appeal to commonplaces
Appendix: The date of All's Well That Ends Well