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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... method of his play . Behind Sid- ney's injunction " look in thy heart and write " was the moral philosophers ' injunction to " follow nature . " This book defines this hu- manist idea of nature , especially in relation- ship to art ...
... method of his play . Behind Sid- ney's injunction " look in thy heart and write " was the moral philosophers ' injunction to " follow nature . " This book defines this hu- manist idea of nature , especially in relation- ship to art ...
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... Method of Study ] ( LB I , CWE 24 ) Enchiridion militis christiani [ Hand- book of the Militant Christian ] ( LB V , CWE 66 ) Julius Exclusus Lingua Moria Novum Testamentum Parabolae Paraclesis Dialogus Julius 12 ABBREVIATIONS.
... Method of Study ] ( LB I , CWE 24 ) Enchiridion militis christiani [ Hand- book of the Militant Christian ] ( LB V , CWE 66 ) Julius Exclusus Lingua Moria Novum Testamentum Parabolae Paraclesis Dialogus Julius 12 ABBREVIATIONS.
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... , CWE 27 ) Ratio verae theologiae [ True Theological Method ] ( Holborn ) Sileni Alcibiadis [ The Sileni of Alcibi- ades , Adage 3.3.1 ] ( LB II , CWE , 34 ) Romance and Reformation Introduction THIS BOOK IS AN INQUIRY , ABBREVIATIONS 13.
... , CWE 27 ) Ratio verae theologiae [ True Theological Method ] ( Holborn ) Sileni Alcibiadis [ The Sileni of Alcibi- ades , Adage 3.3.1 ] ( LB II , CWE , 34 ) Romance and Reformation Introduction THIS BOOK IS AN INQUIRY , ABBREVIATIONS 13.
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... method of his play . My undertaking builds upon strong scholarship in this area , and I especially acknowledge the studies of humanist rhetoric by Nancy Struever , Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle , Richard Lanham , Victoria Kahn , Thomas O ...
... method of his play . My undertaking builds upon strong scholarship in this area , and I especially acknowledge the studies of humanist rhetoric by Nancy Struever , Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle , Richard Lanham , Victoria Kahn , Thomas O ...
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... method was guided by a moral intention . 4 I shall argue that Shakespeare worked centrally with these notions to ... methods of English humanism . Altman emphasizes the connection between dramatic devices in Tudor plays and the humanist ...
... method was guided by a moral intention . 4 I shall argue that Shakespeare worked centrally with these notions to ... methods of English humanism . Altman emphasizes the connection between dramatic devices in Tudor plays and the humanist ...
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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