'Ethopoeia' or Impersonation: A Neglected Species of Medieval Characterization
- Author / Editor
- Specht, Henrik.
'Ethopoeia' or Impersonation: A Neglected Species of Medieval Characterization
- Published
- Chaucer Review 21 (1986): 1-15.
- Description
- Ethopoeia, Latinized as "adlocutio" and treated by most rhetoricians, classical and medieval, is a subspecies of dramatic character portrayal, as distinct from the formal portrait. TC 5.1054-85 employs it in Criseyde's interior monologue. Other examples may be found in HF 300-60, TC 3.802-40, FranT 1354-1456, and LGW.
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