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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... Logos in Measure for Measure 102 Appendix : Redemption and Damnation : Measure for Measure and Othello as Contrasting Paired Visions Notes Works Cited Index 150 157 176 185 Acknowledgments GIVEN THIS STUDY'S FOCUS ON HUMANIST EDUCATION , I.
... Logos in Measure for Measure 102 Appendix : Redemption and Damnation : Measure for Measure and Othello as Contrasting Paired Visions Notes Works Cited Index 150 157 176 185 Acknowledgments GIVEN THIS STUDY'S FOCUS ON HUMANIST EDUCATION , I.
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... vision of restored community . Since Havel is probably the most visible representative of the Erasmian voice and spirit in our time , it is fitting that Living in Truth , the volume that contains " Politics and Conscience , " was ...
... vision of restored community . Since Havel is probably the most visible representative of the Erasmian voice and spirit in our time , it is fitting that Living in Truth , the volume that contains " Politics and Conscience , " was ...
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... vision : the Globe theatre is all the world . Erasmus , as I shall demonstrate , frequently likens life to God's comic drama , especially at those times when life seems least so . Chapter 2 addresses the reasons why Measure for Measure ...
... vision : the Globe theatre is all the world . Erasmus , as I shall demonstrate , frequently likens life to God's comic drama , especially at those times when life seems least so . Chapter 2 addresses the reasons why Measure for Measure ...
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... visions of redemption and damnation . This addition reinforces the argument of chapter 2 for regarding Measure for Measure as comic romance , but it is appended because it is tangential to my study's central purpose of discerning how ...
... visions of redemption and damnation . This addition reinforces the argument of chapter 2 for regarding Measure for Measure as comic romance , but it is appended because it is tangential to my study's central purpose of discerning how ...
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... vision of wisdom and benevo- lence in the complex but meaningful model of a loving teacher . Dismayed at how disputations over the eucharist and other mys- teries of the faith are tearing the Church apart , Erasmus suggests that ...
... vision of wisdom and benevo- lence in the complex but meaningful model of a loving teacher . Dismayed at how disputations over the eucharist and other mys- teries of the faith are tearing the Church apart , Erasmus suggests that ...
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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