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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... human- ist synthesis worked out by Erasmus , its foremost proponent , who joined piety with classical learning , Thomas a Kempis with Lorenzo Valla . Erasmus believed that classical rhetorical hermeneutics could rescue Scripture from ...
... human- ist synthesis worked out by Erasmus , its foremost proponent , who joined piety with classical learning , Thomas a Kempis with Lorenzo Valla . Erasmus believed that classical rhetorical hermeneutics could rescue Scripture from ...
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... human sin by Incarnation : " He that might the vantage best have took / Found out the remedy " ( 2.2.74-75 ) . The other is the whimsical exchange of greetings between Elbow and the disguised Duke : Elbow : Bless you , good father friar ...
... human sin by Incarnation : " He that might the vantage best have took / Found out the remedy " ( 2.2.74-75 ) . The other is the whimsical exchange of greetings between Elbow and the disguised Duke : Elbow : Bless you , good father friar ...
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... human interaction . As simultaneously a cosmological , moral , and rhetorical principle , it was believed to give coherence to all existence . Insofar as human beings were seen to draw artistic power from the creating force of nature ...
... human interaction . As simultaneously a cosmological , moral , and rhetorical principle , it was believed to give coherence to all existence . Insofar as human beings were seen to draw artistic power from the creating force of nature ...
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... 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 Erasmian voice and spirit in our time , it is fitting that ...
... 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 Erasmian voice and spirit in our time , it is fitting that ...
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... humans exist . Though the cynical Jaques sees all the world as a stage , the humanist playwright using comic romance ... human faculties upon which society depends , procreation and language ; that they are part of the play's context ...
... humans exist . Though the cynical Jaques sees all the world as a stage , the humanist playwright using comic romance ... human faculties upon which society depends , procreation and language ; that they are part of the play's context ...
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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