Rhetorical Subversion in Early English Drama - Couverture rigide

Hayes, Douglas W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0820463019 ISBN 13 : 9780820463018

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2004

Synopsis

This book centers on the uses and abuses of language in early English drama. It examines a number of plays alongside classical and sixteenth-century rhetorical treatises and focuses on the appearances of one stock character, the Vice figure, to determine how he uses language to dupe, implicate, and control others in the plays. The Vice figure is usually very skilled in the use of rhetoric and, in many cases, seems to be so persuasive and entertaining that the moral aims of the drama appear to be jeopardized. Douglas W. Hayes investigates the moral and rhetorical ambivalence of the Vice figure not only in Medieval morality plays and Tudor interludes, but also in the language of later characters related to the Vice such as Marlowe's Mephastophilis and Shakespeare's Falstaff and Iago.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author: Douglas W. Hayes is Assistant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance British Literature at Winona State University in Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto. His research interests include early English drama and intellectual culture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820463019
• ISBN 13: 9780820463018
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: GPSR Kontakt; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne