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Reading Shakespeare's Characters : Rhetoric, Ethics, and Identity Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
author
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Desmet, Christy.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870238078
print isbn13
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9780870238079
ebook isbn13
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9780585083339
language
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English
subject
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Characters, Characters and characteristics in literature, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Reader-response criticism, Ethics in literature, Rhetoric.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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PR2989.D47 1992eb
ddc
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822.3/3
subject
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Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Characters, Characters and characteristics in literature, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Reader-response criticism, Ethics in literature, Rhetoric.
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Reading Shakespeare's Characters
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A volume in the series
Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
Edited by Arthur F. Kinney
EDITORIAL BOARD
A. R. Braunmuller, Donald Foster, Jean E. Howard, Linda Levy Peck, John Pitcher, Anne Lake Prescott, David Harris Sacks, Jenny Wormald
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Reading Shakespeare's Characters
Rhetoric, Ethics, and Identity
Christy Desmet
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS AMHERST
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Copyright 1992 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 92-14742 ISBN 0-87023-807-8 Designed by Susan Bishop Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Desmet, Christy, 1954 Reading Shakespeare's characters: rhetoric, ethics, and identity /Christy Desmet. p. cm. (Massachusetts studies in early modern culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-807-8 (alk. paper) 1. Shakespeare, William, 15641616Characters. 2. Characters and characteristics in literature. 3. Identity (Psychology) in literature. 4. Reader-response criticism. 5. Ethics in literature. 6. Rhetoric15001800. I. Title. II. Series PR2989.D47 199292-14742 822.3'3dc20CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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For my family, Rosemary, James, and Clark Desmet and for my husband, David Schiller
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
3
One "Th' Observ'd of All Observers": Reading Character in Theory and Practice
10
Two Characterizing Shakespeare's Readers: Falstaff and the Motives of Character Criticism
35
Three Earning a Place in the Story: Ethos and Epideictic in Cymbeline
59
Four "Not True, to Be True": Hyperbole and Judgment in Othello, King John, and The Winter's Tale
84
Five "To See Feelingly": Vision, Voice, and Dramatic Illusion in King Lear
112
Six "Who Is't Can Read a Woman?": Rhetoric and Gender in Venus and Adonis, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well
134
Epilogue
164
Notes
169
Index
205
Page ix
Acknowledgments
Many friends and colleagues contributed to the completion of this book. My interest in Shakespearean character first took shape in a dissertation written for Richard A. Lanham, who continues to offer welcome advice and encouragement. Fran Teague has read every chapter in the manuscript, some more than once; as my Quintilius, she has saved me from making many embarrassing errors. Rick Creese provided several crucial references, proving himself a real friend and an A + bibliographer. Finally, the women of the University of Georgia English Department have shown me by their example how to combine scholarship with teaching.
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