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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... Erasmus's letters in Allen is assigned a number ; when this num- ber is quoted , it is preceded by the designation " EE " ( Erasmi Epistolae ) . Collected Works of Erasmus ( Toronto : University of To- ronto Press , 1974- ) See Allen ...
... Erasmus's letters in Allen is assigned a number ; when this num- ber is quoted , it is preceded by the designation " EE " ( Erasmi Epistolae ) . Collected Works of Erasmus ( Toronto : University of To- ronto Press , 1974- ) See Allen ...
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... Erasmus - Luther : Discourse on Free Will , trans . and ed . Ernest F. Winter ( New York : Ungar , 1990 ) , pp . 3-94 Titles of Erasmus's Works Cited For each work of Erasmus , a short form of the title is listed , fol- lowed by a ...
... Erasmus - Luther : Discourse on Free Will , trans . and ed . Ernest F. Winter ( New York : Ungar , 1990 ) , pp . 3-94 Titles of Erasmus's Works Cited For each work of Erasmus , a short form of the title is listed , fol- lowed by a ...
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... Erasmus's Folly persona was an influential precedent . Shakespeare's Duke in Measure for Measure , as he disguises ... Erasmus Prize . I find that in his comic romances , Shakespeare af- firms the same nexus of benign nature and human ...
... Erasmus's Folly persona was an influential precedent . Shakespeare's Duke in Measure for Measure , as he disguises ... Erasmus Prize . I find that in his comic romances , Shakespeare af- firms the same nexus of benign nature and human ...
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... Erasmus in England in the mid - sixteenth century , a program importantly centered in literary study . Frank McCombie observed that , in turn , Erasmus's works , insofar as they are appreciated today , have been rendered accessible to ...
... Erasmus in England in the mid - sixteenth century , a program importantly centered in literary study . Frank McCombie observed that , in turn , Erasmus's works , insofar as they are appreciated today , have been rendered accessible to ...
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... Erasmus explains why he keeps his guidelines for behavior general : In the first place , human affairs take so many ... Erasmus's best known expression of the emotion that drove his anti - dogmatism is found in De libero arbitrio [ On ...
... Erasmus explains why he keeps his guidelines for behavior general : In the first place , human affairs take so many ... Erasmus's best known expression of the emotion that drove his anti - dogmatism is found in De libero arbitrio [ On ...
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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