Performing Arguments

Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-53529-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Ludus

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 poetry, the fifteenth-century ‘disguising’ play, the Tudor Humanist debate interlude, and four Shakespearean works in which the dynamics of debate invite the plays’ reconsideration under the new rubric of ‘rhetorical problem plays.’ Performing Arguments further establishes a distinction between instrumental argumentation, through which an arguer seeks to persuade an opponent or audience, and performative argumentation, through which the arguer provides an aesthetic display of verbal or intellectual skill with persuasion being of secondary concern, or of no concern at all. This study also examines rhetorical and performance theories and practices contemporary with the early texts and genres explored, and is further influenced by more recent critical perspectives on resonance and reception and theories of audience response and reconstruction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giles-Watson, Maura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Über Autor(innen)

Maura Giles-Watson (ALB-Classical Studies, Harvard; PhD-English, U of Nebraska) teaches early drama and performance studies at the University of San Diego. Her articles have appeared in Early Theatre, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, and essay collections. She directs the Tudor Plays Project, a digital humanities research program.