„New Languages“: Pragmatism, Rhetoric and War in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy and Ford’s Perkin Warbeck

Abstract

Discussing the links between rhetoric and pragmatism in Shakespeare’s Second Historical Tetralogy and later historical drama, represented by John Ford’s The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck: A Strange Truth (1634), this article traces the changes in the use of rhetoric in early modern times.

Keywords

• „New
• Languages“
• Pragmatism
• Rhetoric
• War
• Shakespeare’s
• Second
• Tetralogy
• Ford’s
• Perkin
• Warbeck