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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... fornication and calumny . These social ills infect the two creative human faculties upon which society depends , procreation and language ; that they are part of the play's context should condition our reading of 22 INTRODUCTION.
... fornication and calumny . These social ills infect the two creative human faculties upon which society depends , procreation and language ; that they are part of the play's context should condition our reading of 22 INTRODUCTION.
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... language : Light is shed on an understanding of Scripture if we weigh not only what is said , but also by whom , to whom , in what words , at what time , on what occasion , and what preceded and what followed . ( Holborn , p . 196 , 29 ...
... language : Light is shed on an understanding of Scripture if we weigh not only what is said , but also by whom , to whom , in what words , at what time , on what occasion , and what preceded and what followed . ( Holborn , p . 196 , 29 ...
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... language than Terence ? . . . Should someone think that a few , selected comedies of Plautus , free from impropriety , should be added to the above , I would personally not demur . ( LB I , 521C ; CWE 24 : 669 ) . Erasmus found support ...
... language than Terence ? . . . Should someone think that a few , selected comedies of Plautus , free from impropriety , should be added to the above , I would personally not demur . ( LB I , 521C ; CWE 24 : 669 ) . Erasmus found support ...
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... language of metaphor and drama . He speaks of God as a benevolent playmaker and humans as players in the divinely created drama . Erasmus employs this metaphor often , especially during his later years , which were plagued by Lu- ther's ...
... language of metaphor and drama . He speaks of God as a benevolent playmaker and humans as players in the divinely created drama . Erasmus employs this metaphor often , especially during his later years , which were plagued by Lu- ther's ...
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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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