Romance and Reformation: The Erasmian Spirit of Shakespeare's Measure for MeasureIt examines an assumption central to Shakespeare's inherited humanist tradition: that literature, and particularly drama, is capable of promoting a better society and it finds Shakespeare interrogating this assumption, asking whether drama that has been fashioned according to reformist principles of the great humanist educator Erasmus can, after all, achieve the remediating effects it seeks. |
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... Duke : Elbow : Bless you , good father friar [ brother ] . Duke : And you , good brother father . ( 3.2.11-12 ) Together , these phrasings link the Duke's chosen disguise to God's own working of reformation not through force but through ...
... Duke : Elbow : Bless you , good father friar [ brother ] . Duke : And you , good brother father . ( 3.2.11-12 ) Together , these phrasings link the Duke's chosen disguise to God's own working of reformation not through force but through ...
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... Duke in Measure for Measure , as he disguises and dramatizes in order to reverse disintegration of the social fabric , is thoroughly conceived in this mode and represents Shakespeare's most direct and inten- sive examination of the ...
... Duke in Measure for Measure , as he disguises and dramatizes in order to reverse disintegration of the social fabric , is thoroughly conceived in this mode and represents Shakespeare's most direct and inten- sive examination of the ...
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... Duke and the Duke's two proteges , Angelo and Isabella , who both are inexpe- rienced and inflexible . Within these important contexts of artistic genre , philosophical ideas , and original political setting , my final chapter reads the ...
... Duke and the Duke's two proteges , Angelo and Isabella , who both are inexpe- rienced and inflexible . Within these important contexts of artistic genre , philosophical ideas , and original political setting , my final chapter reads the ...
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Contents
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Measure for Measure as Comic Romance | 55 |
Fornication and Calumny The Conceptual Structure of Measure for Measure | 69 |
Factionalism and Social Reform The Dilemma of Humanist Drama | 88 |
The Rhetoric of the Logos in Measure for Measure | 102 |
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