"A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant": emulation, rhetoric, and cruel propriety in "Titus Andronicus."
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Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" critically engages and enacts teachings and patterns of emulation, including those of Quintilian, Roger Ascham, and other contemporary humanists and playwrights, pressing emulation's uses to extremes that suggest that imitative... ...
