This is an illuminating approach to Shakespeare's orations, which are analyzed as to structure, classified as to the type of oratory used in each, referred to their sources, and discussed in their relations to orations in other Elizabethan plays and to the study of oratory in Elizabethan schools.

Originally published in 1942.

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