Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England (Paperback)

Introduction; Part I. Rhetoric, Citizenship and Popularity: 1. Rhetoric, power and citizenship; 2. Rhetoric and popularity; 3. Rhetoric, news and politics; 4. The adversary politics of rhetoric; Part II. Rhetoric, Politics and Parliaments: 5. Rhetoric, politics and the people in the 1570s; 6. Rhetoric, royal marriage and John Stubbe; 7. Rhetoric and Elizabethan parliaments; 8. Rhetoric, the Union and impositions in parliament, 1607?10; 9. Rhetoric and adversary politics in the 1620s; 10. Rhetoric, war and the grievances of the people in parliament, 1625?8; Epilogue: rhetoric, monarchy and sedition.