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Forensic Shakespeare, Paperback by Skinner, Quentin, Used Good Condition, Fre...
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- Forensic Shakespeare, Paperback by Skinner, Quentin, ISBN 019881643X, ISBN-13 9780198816430, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US
<em>Forensic Shakespeare</em> illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem <em>Lucrece</em>, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (<em>Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius</em><br><em>Caesar</em> and <em>Hamlet</em>) and on three early Jacobean dramas, (<em>Othello, Measure for Measure</em> and <em>All's Well That Ends Well</em>), Quentin Skinner argues that major speeches, and sometimes sequences of scenes, are crafted according to a set of rhetorical precepts about how to develop a persuasive judicial case,<br>either in accusation or defence. Some of these works have traditionally been grouped together as 'problem plays', but here Skinner offers a different explanation for their frequent similarities of tone. There have been many studies of Shakespeare's rhetoric, but they have generally concentrated on<br>his wordplay and use of figures and tropes. By contrast, this study concentrates on Shakespeare's use of judicial rhetoric as a method of argument. By approaching the plays from this perspective, Skinner is able to account for some distinctive features of Shakespeare's vocabulary, and also help to<br>explain why certain scenes follow a recurrent pattern and arrangement. More broadly, he is able to illustrate the extent of Shakespeare's engagement with an entire tradition of classical and Renaissance humanist thought.<br>
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