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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... fact that no action has mean- ing outside of a context , apart from the circumstances that inform it . Chapters 2 , 3 and 4 discuss the contexts that should affect our response to the play's action . Chapter 2 deals with genre — with ...
... fact that no action has mean- ing outside of a context , apart from the circumstances that inform it . Chapters 2 , 3 and 4 discuss the contexts that should affect our response to the play's action . Chapter 2 deals with genre — with ...
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... fact that Shakespeare has attuned us to its characteristic modes of thought . The relationship is that close.2 I believe that this close alignment of literary sensibilities between playwright and reformer results from the fact that ...
... fact that Shakespeare has attuned us to its characteristic modes of thought . The relationship is that close.2 I believe that this close alignment of literary sensibilities between playwright and reformer results from the fact that ...
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... fact that , almost always , Erasmian references to tragedy define a condition that hides within it an ultimate blessing . He could ex- press this expectation ironically , as in this comment on Luther's marriage : All the ups and downs ...
... fact that , almost always , Erasmian references to tragedy define a condition that hides within it an ultimate blessing . He could ex- press this expectation ironically , as in this comment on Luther's marriage : All the ups and downs ...
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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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