{"product_id":"forensic-shakespeare-quentin-skinner-9780199558247","title":"Forensic Shakespeare","description":"\u003cem\u003eForensic Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem \u003cem\u003eLucrece\u003c\/em\u003e, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (\u003cem\u003eRomeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e) and on three early Jacobean dramas, (\u003cem\u003eOthello, Measure for Measure\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAll's Well That Ends Well\u003c\/em\u003e), Quentin Skinner argues that major speeches, and sometimes sequences of scenes, are crafted according to a set of rhetorical precepts about how to develop a persuasive judicial case, either in accusation or defence. Some of these works have traditionally been grouped together as 'problem plays', but here Skinner offers a different explanation for their frequent similarities of tone. There have been many studies of Shakespeare's rhetoric, but they have generally concentrated on his wordplay and use of figures and tropes. By contrast, this study concentrates on Shakespeare's use of judicial rhetoric as a method of argument. By approaching the plays from this perspective, Skinner is able to account for some distinctive features of Shakespeare's vocabulary, and also help to explain why certain scenes follow a recurrent pattern and arrangement. More broadly, he is able to illustrate the extent of Shakespeare's engagement with an entire tradition of classical and Renaissance humanist thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Quentin Skinner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199558248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199558247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.30d","brand":"Quentin Skinner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44201687286015,"sku":"9780199558247","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c8588c10-f6d1-411a-9065-89cea62a510b.jpg?v=1691490825","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/forensic-shakespeare-quentin-skinner-9780199558247","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}