The Development of Shakespeare's Rhetoric: A Study of Nine Plays |
Contents
Purpose and methodology | 9 |
Shakespeares education in rhetoric | 15 |
The contextual use of rhetorical figures | 35 |
Titus Andronicus 1592 | 79 |
Richard III 159293 | 93 |
Loves Labours Lost 159495 106 | 123 |
Twelfth Night 1601 | 124 |
Hamlet 160001 | 147 |
King Lear 160506 | 186 |
The Winters Tale 1609 | 204 |
The Tempest 1611 | 226 |
The benefits of rhetorical analysis | 249 |
Alphabetical list of figures analysed in this study | 270 |
Rates of rhetorical figures in nine plays | 278 |
Bibliography of works cited | 302 |
Othello 160304 | 167 |
Common terms and phrases
Act 2 Act anadiplosis anaphora antanaclasis Anthypophora antimetabole antithesis aposiopesis Armado Arte of English Arts of Language asteismus asyndeton audience Auxesis brachylogia Cassio characters chiasmus clauses comedy context create Desdemona devices discourse effect Elizabethan Rhetoric Eloquence 1593 emotional English Poesie 1589 epanalepsis epanorthosis Epimone epistrophe Epitheton epizeuxis Erotema example Exclamatio express figures of repetition frequency function Garden of Eloquence grammar school Hendiadys hyperbaton hyperbole hysteron proteron Iago Iago's instances per thousand isocolon King Lear Leontes linguistic Love’s Labour’s Love's Labour's Lost madness Malvolio meaning Miranda occurs Olivia Othello paralipsis parenthesis parison paronomasia Peacham phrases play's ploké Polixenes Polonius polyptoton Polysyndeton Prospero puns Puttenham Renaissance repeating words rhetorical figures Richard scene semantic sense sentences Shakespeare plays instances shows speaker speech structure style suggests syllepsis symploké syntactic parallels syntax Tapinosis Temp Tempest thee thou thousand lines Titus Andronicus Twelfth Night villain Viola Vocative Winter's Tale wordplay