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Two Elizabethan Treatises on Rhetoric
The Foundacion of Rhetorike by Richard Reynolds (1563) and A Brief Discourse on Rhetoricke by William Medley (1575)
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Sixteenth century Elizabethan treatises on rhetoric in the vernacular are relatively rare. Guillaume Coatalen offers annotated editions of Richard Reynoldsâs The Foundacion of Rhetorike (1563), which has not been edited since the 1945 facsimile edition, and of William Medleyâs unknown Brief Discourse on Rhetoricke which survives in a single manuscript dated 1575. While Reynoldsâs work is an English adaptation of Aphthonius's Progymnasmata and a preparation for Thomas Wilsonâs influential Arte of Rhetoricke (1560), Medleyâs is broader in scope and contains the only full treatment of periodic prose in English in the period. Both works are essential to understand how Elizabethan rhetoric in the vernacular evolved, in particular in aristocratic circles, and its links with Continental developments, notably German.
Guillaume Coatalen, Ph.D (2002), University of Cergy-Pontoise (France), is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance English literature with a strong interest in manuscripts. He co-edited with Carlo Bajetta and Jonathan Gibson, Elizabeth Iâs Foreign Correspondence: Letters, Rhetoric, and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Sigla and Abbreviations
Introduction
Richard Reynolds, The Foundacion of Rhetorike (1563)
William Medley, A Brief Discourse of Rhetorike (1575), Cecil Papers MS 238/6
Bibliography
Index Nominum
Index Rerum
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Sigla and Abbreviations
Introduction
Richard Reynolds, The Foundacion of Rhetorike (1563)
William Medley, A Brief Discourse of Rhetorike (1575), Cecil Papers MS 238/6
Bibliography
Index Nominum
Index Rerum
Specialists working on Renaissance rhetoric and more specifically sixteenth century English rhetoric. Historians researching Puritan discourses and Elizabethan court culture.