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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... turns to the artistry of Measure for Measure , which is an exemplary but also , finally , self - questioning product of Erasmian humanist values and method . Humanist rhetoric emphasizes the fact that no action has mean- ing outside of ...
... turns to the artistry of Measure for Measure , which is an exemplary but also , finally , self - questioning product of Erasmian humanist values and method . Humanist rhetoric emphasizes the fact that no action has mean- ing outside of ...
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... turn , Erasmus's works , insofar as they are appreciated today , have been rendered accessible to our imagi- nations by our encounter with Shakespeare : It would not ... be absurd to speculate upon how far the Moriae Enco- mium [ Praise ...
... turn , Erasmus's works , insofar as they are appreciated today , have been rendered accessible to our imagi- nations by our encounter with Shakespeare : It would not ... be absurd to speculate upon how far the Moriae Enco- mium [ Praise ...
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... turn out , as in a drama , with a happy ending , thanks to the skill of the Supreme Director whose inscrutable design controls the affairs of men " ( EE 2522 ; EHA 227 ) . Writing to Sadoleto ( 27 March 1531 ) , he employs the meta ...
... turn out , as in a drama , with a happy ending , thanks to the skill of the Supreme Director whose inscrutable design controls the affairs of men " ( EE 2522 ; EHA 227 ) . Writing to Sadoleto ( 27 March 1531 ) , he employs the meta ...
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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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