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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... says , must come from the heart . To a humanist like Sidney , this performance was not self - contradictory . Formal imitation and spontaneous adaptability were dual elements of humanist rhetoric requisite for art , education , and life ...
... says , must come from the heart . To a humanist like Sidney , this performance was not self - contradictory . Formal imitation and spontaneous adaptability were dual elements of humanist rhetoric requisite for art , education , and life ...
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... says , " no more yielding but a dream " ( MND : 5.1.428 ) . To clarify this dynamic component of humanist rhetoric , I point to the evolution of the concept of the Logos from its first surviving statement in Heraclitus through its ...
... says , " no more yielding but a dream " ( MND : 5.1.428 ) . To clarify this dynamic component of humanist rhetoric , I point to the evolution of the concept of the Logos from its first surviving statement in Heraclitus through its ...
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... says is the " philosophy " of Christ and holds eternal au- thority : Holy Scripture knows how to adjust its language to our human condi- tion . In it are passages where God is angry , grieved , indignant , furious ; where he threatens ...
... says is the " philosophy " of Christ and holds eternal au- thority : Holy Scripture knows how to adjust its language to our human condi- tion . In it are passages where God is angry , grieved , indignant , furious ; where he threatens ...
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... say , is folly . I can hardly deny it , but let them confess also that this is the way the play of life is staged . ( Adams 29 ; LB IV , 428D ) II Although the principle of decorum derived from classical prose and poetry was a ...
... say , is folly . I can hardly deny it , but let them confess also that this is the way the play of life is staged . ( Adams 29 ; LB IV , 428D ) II Although the principle of decorum derived from classical prose and poetry was a ...
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... says that scriptural narrative imparts " goodness and wisdom , " the only sources of genuine power , for power that ... say , is to rule ; whereas in truth to be a prince is nothing but to organize the common good . ( CWE , 34 : 270 ; LB ...
... says that scriptural narrative imparts " goodness and wisdom , " the only sources of genuine power , for power that ... say , is to rule ; whereas in truth to be a prince is nothing but to organize the common good . ( CWE , 34 : 270 ; LB ...
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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