"I call it praise to suffer tyranny": The rhetoric of love as wholly painful in Astrophil and Stella's Sonnet II
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: For Sidney's tortured protagonist of his sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella, effective rhetoric is the only way in which he can articulate anguished feelings about his desired. This essay will contend that in Astrophil and Stella, and Sonnet II in particular, Astrophil uses rhetoric to deplete love of any joy or positivity and present it as a wholly painful experience without merit. To examine this idea, this essay will scrutinise each of the first three stages of oration in turn: inventio (external location of source material), disposition (textual arrangement of material), and elocutio (textual stylization of material).
DOI: 10.17613/cg9rc-mp327
Author: Mason, Edward
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W7128613539
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