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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... Thomas O. Sloane , Joel Altman , and Kathy Eden and the studies of Erasmus by Johan Huizinga , Roland H. Bainton , and Albert Rabil , Jr.2 Struever has mapped the epistemo- logical foundations of Italian humanist thought that link ...
... Thomas O. Sloane , Joel Altman , and Kathy Eden and the studies of Erasmus by Johan Huizinga , Roland H. Bainton , and Albert Rabil , Jr.2 Struever has mapped the epistemo- logical foundations of Italian humanist thought that link ...
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... Thomas a Kempis with Lorenzo Valla . Erasmus believed that classical rhetorical hermeneutics could rescue Scripture from the denaturing syllogistic practices of the scholastic theologians and reveal Scripture's integrity as history and ...
... Thomas a Kempis with Lorenzo Valla . Erasmus believed that classical rhetorical hermeneutics could rescue Scripture from the denaturing syllogistic practices of the scholastic theologians and reveal Scripture's integrity as history and ...
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... Thomas O. Sloane , who reads Donne and Milton against the philosophical foundations underlying the history of English humanist rhetoric , as he traces it through Cicero , Augustine , and Erasmus . While all these studies have deepened ...
... Thomas O. Sloane , who reads Donne and Milton against the philosophical foundations underlying the history of English humanist rhetoric , as he traces it through Cicero , Augustine , and Erasmus . While all these studies have deepened ...
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... Thomas Wilson and George Puttenham . The Erasmian humanists sought to effect re- form from within by shaping their words and actions interactively with the circumstances in which they would be spoken and taken . Humanist rhetoric was ...
... Thomas Wilson and George Puttenham . The Erasmian humanists sought to effect re- form from within by shaping their words and actions interactively with the circumstances in which they would be spoken and taken . Humanist rhetoric was ...
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... style of masking his wisdom than from the specifics of his philosophy . Abetting these classical influences was the intellectual playfulness of his friend Thomas More , whose 1 : THE LOGOS IN THE HUMANIST RHETORICAL TRADITION 27.
... style of masking his wisdom than from the specifics of his philosophy . Abetting these classical influences was the intellectual playfulness of his friend Thomas More , whose 1 : THE LOGOS IN THE HUMANIST RHETORICAL TRADITION 27.
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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