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100 1 _aGiles-Watson, Maura,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aPerforming Arguments :
_bDebate in Early English Poetry and Drama /
_cMaura Giles-Watson.
246 3 _aDebate in Early English Poetry and Drama
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2024.
264 4 _c©2024
300 _a1 online resource (266 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024
490 1 _aLudus ;
_v17
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _tPreliminary Material /
_rMaura Giles-Watson -- Copyright Page /
_rMaura Giles-Watson -- Chapter 1 Toward a Performance-Centred Perspective on Rhetoric /
_rMaura Giles-Watson -- Chapter 2 The Argument Is the Action /
_rMaura Giles-Watson -- Chapter 3 Rhetorical Theatre /
_rMaura Giles-Watson -- Chapter 4 Chamber Theatre /
_rMaura Giles-Watson -- Chapter 5 “Who Shall Be Most Right?” Ethos , Eloquence, and Argumentation in Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Problem Plays /
_rMaura Giles-Watson -- Epilogue /
_rMaura Giles-Watson.
520 _aPerforming 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.’ Performing Arguments further establishes a distinction between instrumental argumentation, through which an arguer seeks to persuade an opponent or audience, and performative argumentation, through which the arguer provides an aesthetic display of verbal or intellectual skill with persuasion being of secondary concern, or of no concern at all. This study also examines rhetorical and performance theories and practices contemporary with the early texts and genres explored, and is further influenced by more recent critical perspectives on resonance and reception and theories of audience response and reconstruction.
546 _aEnglish
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aDebates and debating in literature.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_xHistory and criticism.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tPerforming Arguments : Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama.
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.
_z9789004535299
_w(OCoLC)1425797161
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830 0 _aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
830 0 _aLudus ;
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856 4 _zDOI:
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