ABSTRACT
For Elizabethans, ‘rhetoric’ was defined in nearly all the contemporary manuals as an art or craft of verbal ornamentation. What we call rhetoric, namely a general theory of speaker/writer-audience interaction, was more usually dealt with under the rubric of ‘eloquence.’ Though this article also deals with rhetoric in the restricted Tudor sense, it is concerned primarily with eloquence, the end towards which both rhetoric and its sister art, logic, were directed.
