Artikel
"The School of Eloquence" and "Roasted Square Caps" : oratory and pedantry as fair theatrical game?
Verfasst von:
Escott, Angela
in:
Women's writing
Wallingford:
2001
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59 - 79 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Escott, Angela |
| In: | Women's writing |
| Jahr: | 2001 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article studies the topical significance of the satire by a woman in her unpublished afterpiece play, "The School of Eloquence", 1780, of the phenomena of elocution, oratory and debating societies. Hannah Cowley's play was performed at Drury Lane theatre where the manager was Thomas Sheridan, who played an important role in the growth of popular oratory through his educational theories and published lectures on elocution. Cowley engages with the discourse of rhetoric, aligning herself with the New Rhetoricians, and her satirical references to pedantry, oratory and teaching in the universities draw attention to the exclusion of women from an education enjoyed by men, in the use of their own and other languages. Cowley attacks pedantry and pretension in the use of language in several of her plays, and her popular farce, "Who's the Dupe" also treats classical learning with disrespect | |
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