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OverviewPerforming Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama proposes a fresh performance-centered view of rhetoric by recovering, tracing, and analyzing the trope and tradition of aestheticized argumentation as a mode of performance across several early ludic genres: Middle English debate poetry, the fifteenth-century ‘disguising’ play, the Tudor Humanist debate interlude, and four Shakespearean works in which the dynamics of debate invite the plays’ reconsideration under the new rubric of ‘rhetorical problem plays.’ Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maura Giles-WatsonPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 17 Weight: 0.571kg ISBN: 9789004535299ISBN 10: 9004535292 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 February 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction 1 Toward a Performance-Centred Perspective on Rhetoric 1 Guiding Principles 2 Rhetorical Aesthetics and Epistemics 3 Ethos and Ethopoeia 4 Ludic Agonistics 2 The Argument Is the Action 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?’ 3 Rhetorical Theatre Middle English Debate Poetry in Performative Perspective 1 Introduction 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 4 Chamber Theatre Tudor Humanist Debate Interludes and the Participatory Audience 1 Introduction 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 5 “Who Shall Be Most Right?” Ethos, Eloquence, and Argumentation in Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Problem Plays 1 Introduction 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 9 Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationMaura Giles-Watson (ALB-Classical Studies, Harvard; PhD-English, U of Nebraska) teaches early drama and performance studies at the University of San Diego. Her articles have appeared in Early Theatre, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, and essay collections. She directs the Tudor Plays Project, a digital humanities research program. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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