Ebook: Emulation on the Shakespearean Stage

1. "Emulation hath a thousand sons" : emulative rhetorics in Renaissance England -- 2. "A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant" : emulation, rhetoric, and cruel propriety in Titus Andronicus -- 3. "Suit the action to the word" : emulative self-fashioning, decorum, and the roles of rhetoric in Hamlet -- 4. "I am what you should be" : emulation, ambition, and Ciceronian self-fashioning in Jonson's Catiline -- 5. "Act[ing] an orators part" : emulation, rhetoric, and the limits of theater in Massinger's The Roman actor.