Reading Shakespeare's Characters: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Identity

by Christy Desmet

Although current theory had discredited the idea of a coherent, transcendent self, Shakespeare's characters still make themselves felt as a presence for readers and viewers alike. Confronting this paradox, Christy Desmet explores the role played by rhetoric in fashioning and representing Shakespearean character. She draws on classical and Renaissance texts, as well as on the work of such twentieth-century critics as Kenneth Burke and Paul de Man,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870238078
• ISBN13: 9780870238079
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"