Rhetoric, Passions and Political Literature
by
John D. Staines
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Author John Staines here argues that sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers in England, Scotland, and France wrote tragedies of the Queen of Scots - royal heroine or tyrant, martyr or whore - in order to move their audiences towards political action by shaping and directing the passions generated...