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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... Comic Romance 55 3. Fornication and Calumny : The Conceptual Structure of Measure for Measure 69 4. Factionalism and Social Reform : The Dilemma of Humanist Drama 88 5. The Rhetoric of the Logos in Measure for Measure 102 Appendix ...
... Comic Romance 55 3. Fornication and Calumny : The Conceptual Structure of Measure for Measure 69 4. Factionalism and Social Reform : The Dilemma of Humanist Drama 88 5. The Rhetoric of the Logos in Measure for Measure 102 Appendix ...
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... comic romances , which openly declare themselves as fictions ; these plays generate real insights and feeling through sounds , im- ages , and actions that are , on the literal level , as Shakespeare says , " no more yielding but a dream ...
... comic romances , which openly declare themselves as fictions ; these plays generate real insights and feeling through sounds , im- ages , and actions that are , on the literal level , as Shakespeare says , " no more yielding but a dream ...
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... comic ro- mances the vital ambiguity and tempering power of the Logos often finds expression in the figure of a mentor or facilitator who acts in the reformist mode of the humanist tradition for which Erasmus's Folly persona was an ...
... comic ro- mances the vital ambiguity and tempering power of the Logos often finds expression in the figure of a mentor or facilitator who acts in the reformist mode of the humanist tradition for which Erasmus's Folly persona was an ...
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... comic romance sees the reverse vision : the Globe theatre is all the world . Erasmus , as I shall demonstrate , frequently likens life to God's comic drama , especially at those times when life seems least so . Chapter 2 addresses the ...
... comic romance sees the reverse vision : the Globe theatre is all the world . Erasmus , as I shall demonstrate , frequently likens life to God's comic drama , especially at those times when life seems least so . Chapter 2 addresses the ...
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... comic romance , but it is appended because it is tangential to my study's central purpose of discerning how Measure for Measure , in and of itself , embodies and tests the humanist and , particularly , Erasmian commitment to re- form ...
... comic romance , but it is appended because it is tangential to my study's central purpose of discerning how Measure for Measure , in and of itself , embodies and tests the humanist and , particularly , Erasmian commitment to re- form ...
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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