Elizabethan rhetoric
Subtitle: theory and practice
By: Peter Mack.
Series: Ideas in context ;; 63
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric.; English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Description: In this deeply learned contribution to the cultural and educational history of Elizabethan England, Peter Mack examines the impact of humanist training in the use of language on English prose writing. He shows how this training was deployed in both literary genres and in more practical legal and political settings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.