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| ISBN: | 9780813162621
0813162629
9780813151922
0813151929
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | By studying the diction of Romeo and Juliet, Robert O. Evans examines this, the most rhetorical of Shakespeare's plays, in terms of an Aristotelian critical category, which has been neglected in modern times. Inherent in his methodology is the assumption that Romeo and Juliet is best regarded as drama, not as pure poetry, though essentially it is the rhetorical brilliance of the poetry that is considered. Evans begins with an analysis of the important speeches of Romeo and Juliet and defines the controlling devices Shakespeare wove into them, especially oxymoron. He then follows with a discu.
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| Other form: | Print version: Evans, Robert Owen, 1919- Osier cage : rhetorical devices in Romeo & Juliet. Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, ©1966 108 pages 9780813151922
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