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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... using the method of the humanists . As far as possible I have tried to de- rive my vision of Shakespeare's humanism from the experience of scholarly engagement with the play , working from within outward INTRODUCTION 21.
... using the method of the humanists . As far as possible I have tried to de- rive my vision of Shakespeare's humanism from the experience of scholarly engagement with the play , working from within outward INTRODUCTION 21.
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... experienced as comic romance . Chapter 3 addresses the conceptual structure of the play , draw- ing upon Richard Hooker's ideas of natural goodness . Throughout the main and subordinate actions of the drama , two issues are pat- terned ...
... experienced as comic romance . Chapter 3 addresses the conceptual structure of the play , draw- ing upon Richard Hooker's ideas of natural goodness . Throughout the main and subordinate actions of the drama , two issues are pat- terned ...
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... thought was his sensitivity to the infi- nitely variable circumstances that make up the experience of living and require an ethically minded person not to codify principles 24 1: The Logos in the Humanist Rhetorical Tradition.
... thought was his sensitivity to the infi- nitely variable circumstances that make up the experience of living and require an ethically minded person not to codify principles 24 1: The Logos in the Humanist Rhetorical Tradition.
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... experienced this history as a drama in which were embedded God's own chosen means for moving humankind to embrace faith , hope , and charity as guiding life principles . As a humanist reformer , Erasmus worked to activate that di ...
... experienced this history as a drama in which were embedded God's own chosen means for moving humankind to embrace faith , hope , and charity as guiding life principles . As a humanist reformer , Erasmus worked to activate that di ...
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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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