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A presentation of the aspect of rhetoric dealing with figures, and Shakespeare's use of them in thirteen plays covering the whole of his career as a dramatist in London and the various genres illustrated: comedies, histories and tragedies. Richard III, Love's Labour's Lost, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II, 1 Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, The Tempest are closely studied, showing the many critical advantages the awareness of rhetoric brings the reader and spectator.

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J.M. Maguin is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at University Paul Val ry Montpellier; Honorary President of the French Shakespeare Society (SFS); Honorary Director of Research at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), co-founder of Centre d' tudes et de Recherches lisab thaines (CERE, 1970), now merged in the Institut de Recherches sur la Renaissance l' ge Classique et les Lumi res (IRCL, UMR 5186 of CNRS); and co-founder of the international journal Cahiers lisab thains (1972). He has published many articles on the drama and poetry of Renaissance England, with a special focus on theatre semiotics, poetics, and rhetoric. His books include La Nuit dans le th tre de Shakespeare et de ses pr d cesseurs (Night in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Predecessors) [Lille, 1980, 2 vols.]; William Shakespeare (with Angela Maguin; Fayard, Paris, 1996), Coriolanus, Shakespeare (Atlande, Paris, 2007), Th tre lisab thain (coed., Pl iade, Gallimard, Paris 2009, 2 vols.), an anthology of English Renaissance plays in translation.

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