Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice (Ideas in Context)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 15
NOTE ON THE SYSTEMS OF RHETORIC AND DIALECTIC......Page 23
1 Rhetoric in the grammar school......Page 25
THE SHAPE OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL SYLLABUS......Page 26
READING LATIN LITERATURE......Page 28
COMPOSITION EXERCISES......Page 38
1. Moral sentences......Page 46
2. Moral stories......Page 49
3. Narratives......Page 50
4. History......Page 51
5. Structures for compositions......Page 52
6. Rhetorical topics......Page 53
7. Thinking about an audience......Page 55
8. Amplification......Page 56
9. Commonplaces......Page 57
10. Note-taking and commonplace books......Page 58
11. Figures of rhetoric......Page 59
CONCLUSION......Page 60
2 Rhetoric and dialectic at Oxford and Cambridge......Page 62
RHETORIC......Page 65
DIALECTIC......Page 69
DISPUTATIONS AND DECLAMATIONS......Page 72
2. Declamations and sermons......Page 80
3. Logical invention and the topics......Page 81
4. Argumentation and the syllogism......Page 82
5. Organisation and method......Page 83
7. Tactics for disputation......Page 85
8. Dialectical reading......Page 87
ENGLISH MANUALS AND THE LATIN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT......Page 90
FOUR SUCCESSFUL MANUALS......Page 94
THE ENGLISH STYLE MANUAL......Page 98
ADAPTATION TO ENGLISH......Page 109
4 Everyday writing: notebooks, letters, narratives......Page 117
NOTEBOOKS......Page 118
LETTERS......Page 128
NARRATIVES......Page 138
5 Histories, conduct manuals, romances......Page 149
MORAL STORIES......Page 152
NORAL SENTENCES......Page 159
TECHNIQUES OF AMPLIFICATION......Page 163
SPEECHES AND LETTERS......Page 169
DEBATES......Page 172
SHARED THEMES......Page 178
CONCLUSION......Page 187
6 Political argument......Page 190
DIPLOMATIC LETTERS......Page 191
CECIL'S MEMORANDA......Page 202
ARGUMENT WITHIN THE PRIVY COUNCIL......Page 216
ESSEX'S APOLOGY......Page 220
DIALECTIC AND RHETORIC IN POLITICAL ARGUMENT......Page 225
7 Elizabethan parliamentary oratory......Page 229
SIR NICHOLAS BACON'S SPEECH FOR THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT 1571......Page 231
DEBATES FROM 1572 AND 1593......Page 238
STRUCTURE OF INTERVENTIONS......Page 243
MEANS OF PERSUASION......Page 246
STYLE......Page 249
OPOSITION, FREE SPEACH AND HONEST COUNSEL......Page 253
THE QUEEN IN PARLIAMENT......Page 259
CONCLUSION......Page 264
8 Religious discourse......Page 267
ARGUMENTS ABOUT PREACHING......Page 270
a) Interpretation of the Bible......Page 275
b) Logic......Page 281
c) Organisation......Page 284
d) Style......Page 287
a) Funeral sermons......Page 293
b) Poverty and alms-giving......Page 296
c) Authority......Page 300
CONCLUSION......Page 304
Conclusion......Page 307
AN APPROACH TO READING FOUNDED ON ELIZABETHAN RHETORIC......Page 309
HOW PRACTICE CHANGES THE CATEGORIES......Page 312
ETHICS AND POLITICS......Page 315
PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES......Page 319
SECONDARY SOURCES......Page 325
Index of rhetorical and dialectical terms......Page 332
General index......Page 335