Conversational Practice in Early Modern Drama

我的论文认为，早期现代文法学校的修辞学训练，本身就是一种表演艺术，影响了早期现代戏剧中对话的构思和表现方式。我将探讨文艺复兴时期的修辞学是如何影响莎士比亚戏剧的结构和内容的，同时研究纳什、马洛、韦伯斯特、雪莉和马斯顿的作品，通过研究西塞罗、昆提连和伊拉斯谟的作品，确定伊丽莎白时期文法学校教授的修辞学技巧，并研究我们在这些戏剧中可以看到哪些技巧。我将探索莎士比亚和其他早期现代剧作家的对话方式，这告诉我们关于人物的什么，这告诉我们关于戏剧的什么。我将分析舞台上的对话是如何塑造角色的。反过来，我将测试历史戏剧训练和实践中使用的对话线索可以为早期现代对话的历史理解提供信息的想法。

My thesis argues that early modern grammar school training in rhetoric, itself a performance art, affected how conversation was conceived of and represented in early modern drama. I will explore how Renaissance Rhetoric influenced the structure and content of Shakespeare's plays, also examining those of Nashe, Marlowe, Webster, Shirley and Marston, by examining the writings of Cicero, Quintilian and Erasmus, identifying the rhetorical techniques taught in the Elizabethan grammar schools and examining where we can see these techniques in these plays. I will be exploring the ways in which conversation works in Shakespeare and other early modern dramatists, what this tells us about the characters and what this tells us about the plays. I will analyse how dialogue on stage creates character. Reversing this, I will test the idea that conversational cues used in historical theatre training and practice can inform historicalunderstandings of early modern conversation.