Peter Mack: Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice.

• Thomas Kullmann

The present volume provides a survey of a wide range of Elizabethan discursive practices: In its first chapter, devoted to “Rhetoric in the grammar schools” (11-47), Mack discusses various school syllabuses, showing the extent of training Elizabethan grammar school pupils received – through the medium of Latin – in the fields of textual composition and analysis. Mack specifies eleven “rhetorical skills” acquired at grammar school: “moral sentences”, “moral stories”, “narratives”, “history”, “structures for composition”, “rhetorical topics”, “thinking about an audience”, “amplification”, “commonplaces”, “note-taking and commonplace books” and “figures of rhetoric” (33-46). In addition to Latin classics (Terence, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid) pupils read contemporary treatises (most notably Erasmus’ De copia and De conscribendis epistolis). Reading was supplemented by practical exercises in composition.

Seiten 423 - 425

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