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The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature
The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature
Author: Catherine Bates
In the sixteenth century the modern meaning of courtship - 'wooing someone' - developed from an older sense - 'being at court'. The Rhetoric of Courtship takes this semantic shift as the starting point for an incisive account of the practice and meanings of courtship at the court of Elizabeth I, where 'being at court' pre-eminently came to mean ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521414807
ISBN-10: 0521414806
Publication Date: 6/26/1992
Pages: 248
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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