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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... kind- ness , time , and good judgments I greatly appreciate . Throughout my career Jay Halio has been the first one to whom I have turned for a critical eye to my work , and my debt and appreciation to him go well beyond this project ...
... kind- ness , time , and good judgments I greatly appreciate . Throughout my career Jay Halio has been the first one to whom I have turned for a critical eye to my work , and my debt and appreciation to him go well beyond this project ...
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... kind of hope in their own world . I have tried , therefore , to offer a thoroughgoing and integrated approach to the art of Measure for Measure by using the method of the humanists . As far as possible I have tried to de- rive my vision ...
... kind of hope in their own world . I have tried , therefore , to offer a thoroughgoing and integrated approach to the art of Measure for Measure by using the method of the humanists . As far as possible I have tried to de- rive my vision ...
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... kind of Democritus in human life at large . Yet , though as a rule you disagree widely with vulgar opinions be- cause of that singularly penetrating wit of yours , nevertheless , your af- fability and kindness are so extraordinary that ...
... kind of Democritus in human life at large . Yet , though as a rule you disagree widely with vulgar opinions be- cause of that singularly penetrating wit of yours , nevertheless , your af- fability and kindness are so extraordinary that ...
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... kind of philosophy , located as it is more truly in the disposition of the mind than in syllogisms , life means more than debate , inspiration is preferable to erudition , transformation is a more important 1 : THE LOGOS IN THE HUMANIST ...
... kind of philosophy , located as it is more truly in the disposition of the mind than in syllogisms , life means more than debate , inspiration is preferable to erudition , transformation is a more important 1 : THE LOGOS IN THE HUMANIST ...
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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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