To deck his oratory: Shakespeare’s rhetorical education and The Rape of Lucrece
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The Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare, Rhetoric, Grammar schoolAbstract
Literary criticism usually points out how English poet and playwright William Shakespeare incorporated his
rhetorical education in his works. The eloquence of his verses is due, to a large extent, to the application of resources originally developed in Antiquity as an aid to the orator’s task. This article sets out to show how his narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece (1594), relatively neglected within his canon, not only illustrates well such rhetorical devices but also displays so many links to the poet’s education in the grammar school as to suggest a deliberate tribute.
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