Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation

Peter Mack FBA is Professor of English at the University of Warwick. His books include: Renaissance Argument (1993), Elizabethan Rhetoric (2002), Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare (2010) and A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620 (2011). He has been Director of the Warburg Institute, chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies, and editor of the journal Rhetorica.

• 1. The Questions.- 2. Audience and Occasion.- 3. Structure and Disposition.- 4. Content 1: Narrative.- 5. Content 2: Argument.- 6. Content 3: Further Elements.- 7. Style and Delivery.- 8. From Reading to Writing.- Conclusion.