> > Can anyone suggest some readings in rhetoric and drama. > Anthony <[log in to unmask]> > In Kenneth Burke's _Language as Symbolic Action_, "_Coriolanus_--and the Delights of Faction," pp. 81 ff., "Shakespearean Persuasion: -Antony and Cleopatra_," part 1 (pp. 101-105), and "Form and Persecution in the _Oresteia_," at leat part 1 (pp.125-28). As always with Burke, the specific play he discusses is a "representative anecdote" be used to make a broader set of points about tragedy, drama, literature.