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- Title
"NEW LANGUAGES": PRAGMATISM, RHETORIC AND WAR IN SHAKESPEARE'S SECOND TETRALOGY AND FORD'S PERKIN WARBECK.
- Authors
Procházka, Martin
- Abstract
Discussing the links between rhetoric and pragmatism in Shakespeare's Second Historical Tetralogy and later historical drama, represented by John Ford's The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck: A Strange Truth (1634), this article traces the changes in the use of rhetoric in early modern times. The first part is focused on the problems of rhetoric, law and truth as reflected in traditional approaches (the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle and Quintilian) and early modern theories (George Puttenham and Francis Bacon). The second part outlines some moments of the collapse of royal authority and the third the new uses of rhetoric in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy, especially in the two parts of Henry IV and Henry V. The epilogue, referring to Ford's Perkin Warbeck, asks about the value of the play of fictions in a world whose "realities" are those of money and war.
- Subjects
CHRONICLE History of Perkin Warbeck: A Strange Truth, The (Play); HENRY IV (Play : Shakespeare); HENRY V (Play : Shakespeare); FORD, John, 1586-ca. 1640; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; RHETORIC in literature; WAR in literature; PRAGMATISM in literature
- Publication
Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture, 2013, Vol 23, Issue 45, p43
- ISSN
0862-8424
- Publication type
Literary Criticism