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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... accept them as the only genuine starting point of meaningful human community.9 The humanist dictum to " follow nature " lies behind Havel's vision of restored community . Since Havel is probably the most visible representative of the ...
... accept them as the only genuine starting point of meaningful human community.9 The humanist dictum to " follow nature " lies behind Havel's vision of restored community . Since Havel is probably the most visible representative of the ...
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... accepted expositors , in a simple but none the less scholarly fashion , short but clear . What concerns the faith should be set out clause by clause , as few as possible ; what relates to life should also be imparted in a few words ...
... accepted expositors , in a simple but none the less scholarly fashion , short but clear . What concerns the faith should be set out clause by clause , as few as possible ; what relates to life should also be imparted in a few words ...
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... accepting it in oneself . Wisdom , according to the wise but irreverent Lady Folly , simply cannot exist in the ab- stract above the fray : Some wise man might well drop out of the sky 1 : THE LOGOS IN THE HUMANIST RHETORICAL TRADITION 29.
... accepting it in oneself . Wisdom , according to the wise but irreverent Lady Folly , simply cannot exist in the ab- stract above the fray : Some wise man might well drop out of the sky 1 : THE LOGOS IN THE HUMANIST RHETORICAL TRADITION 29.
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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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