Links Database: Keyword rhetoric

• "Vowing, Swearing, and Superpraising of Parts": Petrarch and Pyramus in the Woods of Athens

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/PETRARCH%20PYRAMUS.txt

  Steele, Kenneth B. "'Vowing, Swearing, and Superpraising of Parts': Petrarch and Pyramus in the Woods of Athens." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. Steele looks at A Midsummer Night's Dream's play-within-a-play to examine the influence of the Petrarchan idiom and Romeo and Juliet:

  keywords: MND, midsummer night's dream, metadrama, rhetoric, Rom, romeo and juliet, petrarch, pyramus, thisby

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > A Midsummer Night's Dream

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• A Poetic Diversion

  http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html

  The glossary of poetic terms accessible at Bob's Byway is impressive in its functionality. Privately created by Robert G. Shubinski, Bob's Byway also houses a pages containing examples of certain types of poetry. Access this site at:

  keywords: rhetoric, poetry, rhythm, scansion

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Reference > Rhetoric

  valid as of 2005-10-07

• RhymeZone Shakespeare Search

  http://www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare/

  RhymeZone allows you to search Shakespeare's works for particular words or phrases. Browse Shakespeare's most popular lines or, for fun, search lines incrementally. The text used appears to be the generally available public domain version, but searches are simple and fast:

  keywords: figure, rhetoric, speech, rhyme, search, lines, quotes, passages

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Reference

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• The Internet Classics Archive | Rhetoric by Aristotle

  http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhetoric.html

  Rhetoric as translated by W. R. Roberts is available at The Internet Classics Archive:

  keywords: archive, aristotle, rhetoric

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Aristotle

  valid as of 2005-09-15

• The Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia

  http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1997.html

  Holloway, Brian. "The Lute as Mediator in the English Renaissance." SRASP. (1997). Exerpt: "Not only does the lute figure discourse between the divine and the person; a related metaphor equates the lute with social discourse as well -- perhaps with Rhetoric itself..." View the full-text version of this article at:

  keywords: article, discourse, music, lute, rhetoric

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Dance

  valid as of 2005-09-14