ENGL 309B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anglicanism
19 Oct 2016
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State of public oratory has fallen to ignorance. Rhetoric that is about written words in addition to speaking. Every guy engaging in that kind of speech is boring, but most are relatively intelligent. Don"t get to hold public office unless anglican. Sometimes bishops or secular lords, as part of their property they have the option to prefer a person into a position of power. My perish church, make recommendation of who gets a position. Age where there"s more and more social mobility. Superiority on the part of the middle classes. Church, don"t go out to sell the service. Teaching, as long as you are not hiring out your services. If you are a brilliant scholar, that"s acceptable. Gentleman"s c, barely pay attention, party a lot. Notion of national characters as articulated through literature (end of 18th century) People are reading shakespeare now instead of just watching.
