Download or read book Reading Shakespeare's Characters written by Christy Desmet and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desmet draws on classical and Renaissance texts, as well as on the work of such 20th-century critics as Kenneth Burke and Paul de Man, to explore the role played by rhetoric in fashioning and representing Shakespearean character. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR