Performing Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama

By: Giles-Watson, Maura

Performing 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004535292
• ISBN13: 9789004535299
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"