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Rhetorical subversion in early English drama

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
P. Lang
Language
English
Pages
152

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Rhetorical subversion in early English drama
2004, P. Lang
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Table of Contents

Backbiter
Mankind
Nichol Newfangle
Ambidexter
Mephastophilis
Falstaff and Iago.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-147) and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Studies in the humanities,, v. 64, Studies in the humanities (New York, N.Y.) ;, v. 64.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
822/.209
Library of Congress
PR658.V5 H39 2004, PR658.V5H39 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
152 p. ;
Number of pages
152

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3675314M
ISBN 10
0820463019
LCCN
2003011196
OCLC/WorldCat
52311967
Goodreads
2693886

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