Rhetoric of Counsel in Thomas Elyot's Pasquil the Playne
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9340495 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arthur E Walzer (0000-0001-7704-4456, corresponding author), Arthur Walzer (Communication Studies, 234 Ford Hall, 224 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. [email protected]) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rhetorica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-8584 • E-ISSN: 1533-8541 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rh.2012.30.1.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2336122851 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Pasquil the Playne, a dialogue written by the English Humanist Thomas Elyot (1490–1546), was inspired by Elyot's unsuccessful experience as a counselor to Henry VIII. Seizing on this biographical context, historians have read the dialogue as a product of Elyot's disillusionment, identifying Elyot with the blunt, truth-telling Pasquil. In contrast this paper reads Pasquil the Playne as a multi-voiced Lucianic dialogue, which gives expression to several perspectives on the rhetoric of counsel. This reading problematizes questions of appropriateness (prepon) and right timing (kairos) in giving advice to a prince. Moreover, Elyot exploits the open-ended spirit of the Lucianic dialogue to attempt to develop in the reader the prudential reasoning (phronesis) essential to wise counsel
Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Expression (computer science · Humanism · Kairos · Linguistics · Literature · Phronesis · Reading (process · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Computer Science · French Literature and Criticism · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |