Shakespeare's Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion

by Lynn Enterline

Book Overview

Shakespeare's Schoolroom places moments of considerable emotional power in Shakespeare's poetry--portraits of what his contemporaries called "the passions"--alongside the discursive and material practices of sixteenth-century English pedagogy. Humanist training in Latin grammar and rhetorical facility was designed to intervene in social reproduction, to sort out which differences between bodies (male and female) and groups (aristocrats,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812223713
• ISBN13: 9780812223712
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"