The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521034388
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Eastern Europe; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Courtship has been an abiding and compelling subject in human discourse from the most ancient times because it ritualizes elements that are fundamental to social existence: love, sex, marriage, and procreation.