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Emulation on the Shakespearean stage
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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...
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.
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- Creator
- Vernon Guy Dickson, Florida International University, USA
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London : Routledge, 2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781138248809, 1138248800, 9781317144090, 1317144090, 9781315579412, 1315579413, 9781409469292, 1409469298, 1317144104, 140946928X
- OCLC
- ocn858762759, ocn976441383
- First published 2013 by Ashgate Pub.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 "Emulation hath a thousand sons": Emulative Rhetorics in Renaissance England; 2 "A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant"; 3 "Suit the action to the word"; 4 "I am what you should be"; 5 "Act[ing] an orators part"; Afterword: Emulation's "thousand sons" and Roman Influence: Conclusions and Implications; Bibliography; Index