id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt zs25x637407 Emily Pitts Donahoe Propaganda and Deliberation: The Rhetoric of the Early Modern English Public Theater 2021 .txt text/plain 572 17 27 Scholars frequently consider early modern drama in terms of rhetoric, detailing how rhetorical education influenced the composition of plays, how playwrights employed rhetorical tropes and figures, and how they thought about rhetorical ethics. In dramas that are designed to reveal and subvert the strategies of theatrical propaganda and that employ rhetorical tools like the argumentum in utramque partem (or the argument on both sides of a question), playwrights seek to develop their audiences' political judgment. cache/zs25x637407.txt txt/zs25x637407.txt