Shakespeare's Arguments with History

by Ronald Knowles

Book Overview

Argument was the basis of Renaissance education; both rhetoric and dialectic permeated early modern humanist culture, including drama. This study approaches Shakespeare's history plays by analyzing the use of argument in the plays and examining the importance of argument in Renaissance culture. Knowles shows how analysis of arguments of speech and action take us to the core of the plays, in which Shakespeare interrogates the nature of political morality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349429236
• ISBN13: 9781349429233
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"