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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... write " was the moral philosophers ' injunction to " follow nature . " This book defines this hu- manist idea of nature , especially in relation- ship to art ( natura naturans ) , and traces the historical and philosophical lines it ...
... write " was the moral philosophers ' injunction to " follow nature . " This book defines this hu- manist idea of nature , especially in relation- ship to art ( natura naturans ) , and traces the historical and philosophical lines it ...
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... write , " an imperative that I believe is synonymous with the familiar charge to " follow nature . " I will define the humanist idea of nature and trace the historical and philosophical lines it followed to reach Shakespeare . In this ...
... write , " an imperative that I believe is synonymous with the familiar charge to " follow nature . " I will define the humanist idea of nature and trace the historical and philosophical lines it followed to reach Shakespeare . In this ...
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... - nificant pronouncements in the apostolic writings were made . Ironically faulting Paul as a way of mocking the arrogance of his interpreters , Erasmus writes : If only he had told us one thing at least 26 ROMANCE AND REFORMATION.
... - nificant pronouncements in the apostolic writings were made . Ironically faulting Paul as a way of mocking the arrogance of his interpreters , Erasmus writes : If only he had told us one thing at least 26 ROMANCE AND REFORMATION.
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... writes for , or speaks in the person of , another , one must suit one's words to the character of that person and in so doing take on a persona that may be partially , but is not altogether , oneself ( Institutes , III . viii . 49-S2 ) ...
... writes for , or speaks in the person of , another , one must suit one's words to the character of that person and in so doing take on a persona that may be partially , but is not altogether , oneself ( Institutes , III . viii . 49-S2 ) ...
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... writes : " all these turmoils in the Church will eventually 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 ) ...
... writes : " all these turmoils in the Church will eventually 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 ) ...
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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