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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... Spirit of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure Robert B. Bennett DELAWARE Newark : University of Delaware Press London : Associated University Presses © 2000 by Associated University Presses , Inc. All rights Romance and.
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... , C. H. Beck , 1974 ) Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami opera omnia , 10 vols . , ed . J. Leclerc ( Leiden , 1703-6 ; rpt . London : Gregg Press , Ltd. , 1962 ) Olin Christian Humanism and the Reformation : Selected Writings of 11 Abbreviations.
... , C. H. Beck , 1974 ) Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami opera omnia , 10 vols . , ed . J. Leclerc ( Leiden , 1703-6 ; rpt . London : Gregg Press , Ltd. , 1962 ) Olin Christian Humanism and the Reformation : Selected Writings of 11 Abbreviations.
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... London in 1604 , the competition by rigid factional interests for King James's favor jeopardized humanist the- atre's place as a free forum in society and , indeed , problematized the roles of law and education , justice and mercy , as ...
... London in 1604 , the competition by rigid factional interests for King James's favor jeopardized humanist the- atre's place as a free forum in society and , indeed , problematized the roles of law and education , justice and mercy , as ...
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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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