Vernon Guy Dickson

Emulation on the Shakespearean Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

Using the interactions of a range of English Renaissance plays with ancient and Renaissance rhetorics, this study analyzes the conflicted uses of emulation in the period. The author also reassesses and nuances our understanding of the roles and significance of emulation in the Renaissance. Among the individual texts examined here are Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, Jonson's Catiline, and Massinger's The Roman Actor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781409469285
• ISBN-10: 140946928X
• Artikelnr.: 41241824

Autorenporträt

Vernon Guy Dickson is Associate Professor of English at Florida International University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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;