Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 32 IS - no. 1 T2 - Rhetoric Review SP - 27-43 ID - bbbc330 T1 - "Shakespeare and the Rhetorical Tradition: Toward Defining the Concept of an 'Opening.'" AU - Benabu, Joel PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - rhetoric KW - oratory LA - English AB - Argues that "Shakespeare's stage-practice may have been influenced by several texts on rhetoric that would have been accessible in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, and which consider the implications, philosophical and practical, contained in the construction and reception of openings in oratory." ER -