The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature by Catherine Bates, Bates Catherine

The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature

Catherine Bates, Bates Catherine

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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 m...

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