humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Feb 27, 12:07 pm, Tom Reedy wrote:
> This must be Art's smarter cousin.
>
> TR

Art's much smarter cousin.

Fish is right up to a point but
the rhetoric of the Shakespeare
works diverges from the rhetoric
credited to Oxford. (Oxford was
fortunate in his secretaries, they
were literary figures in their own
right, in fact Lyly's
father invented a rhetoric which
is sometimes accredited to
Oxford because of that darned
incomparable title; 'Shakespeare'
parodies it, the Oxfordians
give Oxford the works, in part,
because of those parodies).

The Shakespeare works are not
only menippea for the most part,
the much cited Williamson credits
Bacon and Sidney for the breakaway rhetoric seen in the
Arcadia and the Shakespeare
plays (WITHOUT CREDITING
BACON WITH THE PLAYS, OF
COURSE, DO YOU THINK THE
MAN IS SUICIDAL?) Williamson
calls it the 'Senecan Amble
because it 'rolls.' Euphuism,
the rhetoric it was intentionally
devised to replace, cannot 'roll.'