This study analyses the role of the sententia (proverb, maxim, adage) in the rhetorical process of invention and, particularly, Shakespeare's use of the proverb as a master theme.
?The Dictionary of Literary-Rhetorical Conventions is an unusual reference in that it is also an anthology of critical of critical essays. It contains 68 entries, ranging from acrostic' to vulgar language, ' and from one paragraph to ten pages, defining literary terms (genres, verse forms, and other verbal conventions) as they were used in the Renaissance. . . . The The research evidenced in these historical essays is substantial. . . . There ...
