Abstract:

Details of the characterization and motivation of Richard III in William Shakespeare’s ’The Tragedy of King Richard the Third’ can be used to show one way to explore specifics of connection between the rhetoric of literary texts and philosophical response patterns. Subtleties of Shakespearian rhetoric do not lend themselves to simple connection to a conceptual position. Shakespeare deals with willfully choosing villainy.

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Item Citation: New Literary History. Summer, 1998, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p501, 20 p.Publication Type: Academic Journal; Source: New Literary History; Language: Undetermined; Publication Date: 19980622; Rights: Copyright 1998 Gale, Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.; Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press