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q Outlaw Rhetoric n Outlaw Rhetoric FIGURING VERNACULAR ELOQUENCE IN SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLAND Jenny C. Mann Cornell University Press Ithaca and London Cornell University Press gratefully acknowledges receipt of a grant from the Hull Memorial Publication Fund of Cornell University, which aided in the publication of this book. Copyright © 2012 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher . For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. First published 2012 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mann, Jenny C. ( Jenny Caroline), 1978– Outlaw rhetoric : figuring vernacular eloquence in Shakespeare’s England / Jenny C. Mann.    p. cm.  Includes bibliographical references and index.  ISBN 978-0-8014-4965-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. English literature—Early modern, 1500–1700— History and criticism. 2. Eloquence in ­ literature. 3. Figures of speech in literature. 4. National characteristics, English, in literature. 5. Rhetoric, Renaissance—England. 6. English language—Rhetoric— Handbooks, manuals, etc.—Early works to 1800. I. Title. PR418.E45M36 2012 820.9'003—dc23     2011027248 Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetable-based, low-VOC inks and acid-free papers that are recycled, totally chlorine-free, or partly composed of nonwood fibers. For further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. Cloth printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Guy and the Manns We have no way of defining, of policing, the boundaries that separate the name of one entity from the name of another; tropes are not just travelers, they tend to be smugglers and probably smugglers of stolen goods at that. What makes matters even worse is that there is no way of finding out whether they do so with criminal intent or not. —Paul de Man, “The Epistemology of Metaphor” ...

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