Reading Shakespeare's Characters: Rhetoric, Ethics and Identity (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture) - Hardcover

Desmet, Christy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870238078 ISBN 13: 9780870238079

Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992

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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, bringing classical, Renaissance, and contemporary rhetoric into fruitful collision.

Desmet redefines the nature of character by analyzing the function of character criticism and by developing a new perspective on Shakespearean character. She shows how rhetoric shapes character within the plays and the way characters are "read." She also examines the relationship between rhetorical representation and dramatic illusion and by discussing the relevance of rhetorical criticism to issues of gender. Works analyzed include Hamlet, Cymbeline, King John, Othello, The Winter's Tale, King Lear, Venus and Adonis, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well.

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Christy Desmet is associate professor of English at the University of Georgia.

Christy Desmet is associate professor of English at the University of Georgia.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0870238078
• ISBN 13: 9780870238079
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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