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Early Modern English Literature

Providing comprehensive background material on the contexts in which early modern literary texts were produced and consumed, this work unlocks the distinctive social practices, economic structures and modes of behaviour that give these texts their meaning.

Rhetoric, political engagement and More's Utopia Thomas Wilson opened his
treatise on The Arte of Rhetorique (1553) – the first English manual of eloquence
to be arranged on classical lines – by drawing a distinction between 'infinite' and '
definite' questions. The former were abstract considerations, such as 'whether it
be best to marie, or to live single'. The latter focused on particulars; for example, '
whether now it be best here in Englande, for a Prieste to Marie, or to live single'.