Abstract:--------------------P E T E R MACK P arliament was the highest public arena of debate in Elizabethan England. In Parliament gentlemen from the shires could hear the greatest officials of state explain their policies and legislative projects, sometimes in the face of critical arguments and counterproposals. Persuasion, explanation, and argument are the province of rhetoric, the main component of Tudor grammar school education. Parliamentary oratory thus enables us to examine the impact of humanist rhetorical tr… Show more
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