Performing Arguments : : Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama.

• Superior document: Ludus Series ; v.17
• Author: Giles-Watson, Maura.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Ludus Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 pages)

"Performing Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama proposes a fresh performance-centered view of rhetoric by recovering, tracing, and analyzing the trope and tradition of aestheticized argumentation as a mode of performance across several early ludic genres: Middle English debate p...

Table of Contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Toward a Performance-Centred Perspective on Rhetoric
• 1 Guiding Principles
• 2 Rhetorical Aesthetics and Epistemics
• 3 Ethos and Ethopoeia
• 4 Ludic Agonistics
• Chapter 2 The Argument Is the Action: Intersections of Rhetoric, Poetry, and Premodern Performance Culture
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Aesthetics of Disputatio
• 3 Varieties of Rhetorico-Poetic Performance
• 4 'When Is a Text a Play?'
• Chapter 3 Rhetorical Theatre: Middle English Debate Poetry in Performative Perspective
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Rhetoric, Poetics, and Performance
• 3 Recovering Rhetorical Theatre
• 4 Reconstructing Rhetorico-Poetic Performance
• 5 The Performability of The Owl and the Nightingale
• 6 Representation and Ethopoeia in Wynnere and Wastoure
• 7 Unsettled Questions: Lydgate's Disguising at Hertford
• Chapter 4 Chamber Theatre: Tudor Humanist Debate Interludes and the Participatory Audience
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Thomas More Circle and Rhetorico-Theatrical Aesthetics
• 3 "An Interlude!"
• 4 Chamber Theatre and the Activated Audience
• 5 Reconstructing Tudor Performance Spaces and Audience Experience
• 6 The Foure PP and Religious Satire
• 7 The Play of the Wether: Improvisation and Satire at Court
• 8 A Play of Love and Mock Legal Argumentation
• 9 Conclusion
• Chapter 5 "Who Shall Be Most Right?" Ethos, Eloquence, and Argumentation in Shakespeare's Rhetorical Problem Plays
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Shakespeare's Rhetorical Culture
• 3 Fields of Argumentation in the Dramatic Frame
• 4 Debate in the 'Rhetorical Problem Plays'
• 5 The Moral Argument in Measure for Measure
• 6 Pseudo-legal Debate in The Merchant of Venice.
• 7 Political Debate and Sexual Politics in Troilus and Cressida
• 8 The "Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric" in Love's Labour's Lost
• 9 Conclusion
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources
• Index
• Back Cover.