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In the last fifty years our knowledge and understanding of the history of rhetoric have advanced immeasurably. But when students of renaissance rhetoric are called on to justify their choice of subject, they / we tend to make the same explanations, and express the same hopes as T. W. Baldwin or Sister Miriam Joseph did in the 1940s.1 Like them we set out the rhetorical basis of sixteenth century education. Like them we hope that in due course we will be able to achieve new understanding of the great sixteenth century writers, and in particular of their processes of composition. Like them, we take most of our examples from Shakespeare.
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The most important studies are: S.L. Wolff, The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction (New York, 1912); G.K. Hunter, John Lyly (London, 1962); Walter Davis, Idea and Act in Elizabethan Fiction (Princeton, 1969); Nancy R. Lindheim, ‘Lyly’s Golden Legacy: Rosalynde and Pandosto’, Studies in English Literature, vol. XV (1975), pp. 3–20; R. Helgerson, The Elizabethan Prodigals (Berkeley, 1976);
A. C. Hamilton, ‘Elizabethan Romance: the example of prose fiction’, ELH, vol. XLIX (1982), pp. 287–99;
A.C. Hamilton, ‘Elizabethan Prose Fiction and Some Trends in Recent Criticism’, Renaissance Quarterly, vol. XXXVII (1984), pp. 21–33; P. Salzman, English Prose Fiction 1558–1700 (Oxford, 1985); G.M. Logan and G. Teskey (eds), Unfolded Tales (Ithaca, 1989); Caroline Lucas, Writing for Women (Milton Keynes, 1989).
The fable is the first of the progymnasmata, a set of short composition exercises widely used in Elizabethan schools. See Baldwin, D. L. Clark, ‘The Rise and Fall of Progymnasmata in sixteenth and seventeenth century Grammar Schools’, Speech Monographs, XIX (1952), pp. 259–63; Aphthonius, ‘Progymnasmata’, edited by H. Rabe, in Rhetores Graeci, vol. X (Leipzig, 1926), pp. 1–51;
R. Nadeau, ‘The Progymnasmata of Aphthonius in Translation’, Speech Monographs, XIX (1952), pp. 264–85.
J.O. Ward, ‘From Antiquity to the Renaissance: Glosses and Commentaries on Cicero’s Rhetoric’, in J.J. Murphy (ed.), Medieval Eloquence (Berkeley, 1978), pp. 25–67; idem, ‘Renaissance Commentators on Ciceronian Rhetoric’, in J. J. Murphy (ed.), Renaissance Eloquence (Berkeley, 1983); idem, Artificiosa Eloquentia in the Middle Ages (unpublished PhD dissertation: Toronto, 1972); K.M. Fredborg, ‘The Scholastic Teaching of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages’, Cahiers de l’institut du moyen age grec et latin, vol. LV (1987), pp. 85–105, with bibliography.
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Mack, P. (1994). Rhetoric in Use: Three Romances by Greene and Lodge. In: Mack, P. (eds) Renaissance Rhetoric. Warwick Studies in the European Humanities series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23144-7_7
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