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Author:   Omry Smith
Publisher:   Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint:   Verlag Peter Lang
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9783039114009

ISBN 10:   303911400
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   09 November 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents: Henry V: Machiavelli’s The Prince, Henry V and the Rhetoric of Intimidation - Regulating the Degrees of Anger and Fear as the Key to Victory - The Play’s Emotional Appeals and Their Questionable Effect on the Plot – Julius Caesar: The Anger Hidden Within Brutus’ Heart - Reason and Passion in the Orchard Soliloquy and in Brutus’ Speech to the Populace - ‘The Cause is in the Will’: The Rationalisation of Emotion in the Play - Brutus Inflames Italy through a Series of Unintentional Emotional Appeals – Othello: Othello’s Desire for Reason - Rousing Othello’s Passions by Exploiting His Desire for Reason - The Figure of Reasoning as an Effective Means of Rousing Would-Be Men of Reason - The Figure of Reasoning and Othello’s Active Role in His Own Downfall – Coriolanus: The Obsession with ‘Name’ in Coriolanus - The Power of Ethos in the Rhetorical Processes of the Play - The Emotional Appeals That Defeat Coriolanus and Their Foundations in Ethos - Ethos, Shame, and Coriolanus’ Surrender to His Mother’s Persuasion – Shakespeare’s Emotional Appeals in Light of Modern Theories of the Emotions.

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The Author: Omry Smith teaches Shakespearean drama and play analysis in the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Haifa. He received his Ph.D. in theatre studies from Tel-Aviv University, where his thesis focused on Shakespeare’s dramatic use of emotional appeal. He is a graduate of the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio, Jerusalem, and is actively engaged in theoretical research through acting and translating plays.

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