‘Oh, what words can do!’: rhetoric and the moral ambiguities of Antonio Ferreira’s Castro
<p style="text-align:justify;"> The counsellors in António Ferreira's tragedy, Castro, have often been regarded as scheming and corrupt. This article argues, however, that their arguments echo debates around the virtues of severity and clemency found in Seneca's De clement...
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Modern Humanities Research Association
2017
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