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Rhetorical Readings, Dark Comedies, and Shakespeare's Problem Plays

Rhetorical Readings, Dark Comedies, and Shakespeare's Problem Plays


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In the very early 1600s, Shakespeare began writing plays that have proved troubling for audiences. Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, and Troilus and Cressida came to be known as the "the problem plays"--ostensibly written as comedies but without a clear comic resolution. Clark argues that the key to understanding these complicated works is discovering their most prominent rhetorical features. This book is the first to frame the discussion in terms of rhetorically based readings. Drawing upon a wide base of reading in late Tudor-early Stuart drama, Clark offers a formal anatomy of the "problem play" genre, which serves as a primary context for reading the three plays. He also resuscitates the methodological resources of new formalism in light of more recent theoretical approaches--not only through his reexamination of the historiography of dramatic genre but also through his foregrounding of the history and theory of rhetoric. In a departure from the approaches of other rhetorical studies in early modern literature, Clark emphasizes the actual readings of literary texts rather than the history of rhetorical theory, offering useful summaries of scholarship on particular aspects of rhetoric in the period (particularly the chiasmus and the gnomic sententium) in support of close readings. He employs the language of early modern rhetoric to demonstrate what others have approached through different means--the artful fusion of "matter and manner" in Shakespeare's writing--and provides a set of case studies that will be especially useful for teachers of Shakespeare in undergraduate classrooms, where formal patterns can often provide verifiably significant places of entry into a text. Notable also for its encouragement of further rhetorical analysis of literature more broadly, Clark's book will appeal to critics interested in formalist and new formalist approaches to early modern literature, to Tudor-Stuart drama scholars for its reassessment of the category of "problem play," and to scholars of the history of rhetoric and of rhetorical reading forits sustained exploration of the chiasmus, the sententium, competing styles of speech, and the ethical appeal.
About the Author: Ira Clark is professor of English at the University of Florida and the author of four previous books, most recently Comedy, Youth, Manhood in Early Modern England.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780813030401
  • Publisher: University Press of Florida
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Florida
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 144
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 471 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0813030404
  • Publisher Date: 25 Mar 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 166 mm


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