28. In the sixteenth century the Elizabethan actors 
were sometimes referred to as “the rhetoricians.” This 
was natural in a time that studied pronuntiatio  as 
much as the other four parts of rhetoric: inventio , 
dispositio , elocutio , and memoria . See B. L. Joseph’s 
fine study, Elizabethan Acting , in which from the 
sixteenth century manuals of grammar and rhetoric 
he derives the numerous techniques of dramatic 
delivery and action with which every Elizabethan 
school child was acquainted.