Debating and speeches in 'The Old Arcadia' by Sir Philip Sidney

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Osnabrück (Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft), course: Sir Philip Sydney, Arcadia , 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Therefore, the aim of our work is to find out what structure the speech of a medieval courtier looks like, and by what rhetoric principles it is built. We will investigate this question not only from the theoretical point of view, but also on the example of 'The Old Arcadia''s speeches. We will also analyze Arcadian speeches from the angle of its lexical, stylistic, and syntactic value.