Romance and Reformation: The Erasmian Spirit of Shakespeare's Measure for MeasureUniversity of Delaware Press, 2000 - 189 sidor It 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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... Christ , out of its pur- est sources in evangelists and apostles and its most generally accepted expositors , in a simple but none the less scholarly fashion , short but clear . What concerns the faith should be set out clause by clause ...
... Christ , out of its pur- est sources in evangelists and apostles and its most generally accepted expositors , in a simple but none the less scholarly fashion , short but clear . What concerns the faith should be set out clause by clause ...
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... 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 and hates . Again , in other ...
... 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 and hates . Again , in other ...
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... Christ , who , Erasmus observes in Sileni , though he could have chosen to be a monarch like Caesar , or to be wealthy , or a philoso- pher famous among philosophers ( 265 ) , " though he was in every way the lord and master of all ...
... Christ , who , Erasmus observes in Sileni , though he could have chosen to be a monarch like Caesar , or to be wealthy , or a philoso- pher famous among philosophers ( 265 ) , " though he was in every way the lord and master of all ...
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... drama . . . at a time when our play Director thinks best , all this will turn out for the good of Christendom . ( EE 2443 ; EHA , 248 ) 10 Following Erasmus's " philosophy of Christ " consists in moving 32 ROMANCE AND REFORMATION.
... drama . . . at a time when our play Director thinks best , all this will turn out for the good of Christendom . ( EE 2443 ; EHA , 248 ) 10 Following Erasmus's " philosophy of Christ " consists in moving 32 ROMANCE AND REFORMATION.
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... Christ himself , though he was the wisdom of the Father , took on the foolishness of humanity in order to relieve the folly of mortals " ; hence Paul declares the faithful to be " fools for Christ's sake . " 14 Erasmus's Boy sermoner in ...
... Christ himself , though he was the wisdom of the Father , took on the foolishness of humanity in order to relieve the folly of mortals " ; hence Paul declares the faithful to be " fools for Christ's sake . " 14 Erasmus's Boy sermoner in ...
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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 |
Redemption and Damnation Measure for Measure and Othello as Contrasting Paired Visions | 150 |
Notes | 157 |
Works Cited | 176 |
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Romance and Reformation: The Erasmian Spirit of Shakespeare's Measure for ... Robert B. Bennett Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 2000 |
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