Explaining Character in Shakespeare

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 15.02.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Content Objectives
  4. The Unit
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Resource List
  8. Appendix A
  9. Appendix B
  10. Notes

Convincing the Masses: Rhetoric in Julius Caesar

Jennifer Leigh Vermillion

Published September 2015

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Notes

  1. Grammar would actually be imperative to Aristotle as well, considered an essential part of style and therefore noting the schemes of words and repetition would dovetail with this threefold approach to persuasion. Sister Miriam Joseph, Rhetoric in Shakespeare’s Time, 34-38.
  2. John R. Edlund, “Ethos, Logos, Pathos: Three Ways to Persuade.
  3. Sister Miriam Joseph, Rhetoric in Shakespeare’s Time, 20.
  4. P. Cerasano, ed, Julius Caesar, xi.
  5. John Cox, ed, Julius Caesar, 195.
  6. Ibid, 193.
  7. Brutus’ willingness to believe such lies shows that he was predisposed to despise Caesar already.” Garry Wills, Rome and Rhetroic, 14-15.
  8. Cox, 17.
  9. Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human,
  10. “The image of Cicero that Shakespeare wants for his play is the typical Renaissance attitude of respect for the champion of liberty,” hence, Shakespeare could not include Cicero amongst the conspirators, nor could he use Plutarch’s assertion that Cicero was elderly and fainthearted without diminishing his image as a defender of the Republic. Gary Wills, Rome and Rhetoric, 7-8. 
  11. Jan H. Blits “From Caesar’s Ambiguous End,” in Julius Caesar, edited by S.P. Cerasano, 210.
  12. “Shakespeare also invented Caesar’s belief in his wife’s barrenness…, a detail that could as easily reflect Caesar’s disability as his wife’s, though Caesar characteristically fails to see the situation that way.” Cox, 17.
  13. Wills, 25.
  14. John C. Bean, Virgina A. Chappell and Alica M. Gillam, Reading Rhetorically, 36.
  15. Descriptive outlining (says and does statements) can be explored in detail, along with other helpful strategies for annotating text in Reading Rhetorically. John C. Bean, Virgina A. Chappell and Alice M. Gillam, Reading Rhetorically, 56-57
  16. Gerald Graff, and Cathy Birkenstein, They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing,
  17. Ibid
  18. Bloom,
  19. Wills, 59.
  20. Wills, 81-82.

Comments:

Mary Stafford

September 28, 2022 at 3:40 pm

EXCELLENT

THIS CURRICULAR RESOURCE IS VERY HELPFUL. I AM SO GLAD THAT IT IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, RATHER THAN FOR SALE LIKE TPT.

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