Author: Graham, Kenneth J. E.
Title: The Performance of Conviction: Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English Renaissance
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1994). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiv,232 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Captive to Truth: Rethinking Renaissance Plainness;Wyatt's Antirhetorical Verse: Privilege & the Performance of Conviction; Educational Authority & the Plain Truth in the Admonition Controversy and 'The Scholemaster'; Peace, Order, & Confusion: Fulke Greville & the Inner and Outer Forms of Reform; The Mysterious Plainness of Anger: The Search for Justice in Satire and Revenge Tragedy; The Performance of Pride: Desire, Truth, and Power in 'Coriolanus' and 'Timon of Athens'; "Without the Form of Justice": Plainness & the Performance of Love in 'King Lear'; Epilogue: A Precious Jewel?

Keywords: Literary Criticism, English Renaissance, Literature, Rhetoric, Thomas Wyatt, Roger Ascham, Shakespeare, ,