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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... defines this hu- manist idea of nature , especially in relation- ship to art ( natura naturans ) , and traces the historical and philosophical lines it followed to reach Shakespeare . Erasmus had long found the Logos to lie at the heart ...
... defines this hu- manist idea of nature , especially in relation- ship to art ( natura naturans ) , and traces the historical and philosophical lines it followed to reach Shakespeare . Erasmus had long found the Logos to lie at the heart ...
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... define the humanist idea of nature and trace the historical and philosophical lines it followed to reach Shakespeare . In this respect my method resembles that of Thomas O. Sloane , who reads Donne and Milton against the philosophical ...
... define the humanist idea of nature and trace the historical and philosophical lines it followed to reach Shakespeare . In this respect my method resembles that of Thomas O. Sloane , who reads Donne and Milton against the philosophical ...
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... define the vital tie between art and nature . The humanistic artist's characteristic use of irony , ambiguity , and paradox was designed to evoke spiritual energies that would elevate to primary significance a suggested sec- ond meaning ...
... define the vital tie between art and nature . The humanistic artist's characteristic use of irony , ambiguity , and paradox was designed to evoke spiritual energies that would elevate to primary significance a suggested sec- ond meaning ...
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... define a condition that hides within it an ultimate blessing . He could ex- press this expectation ironically , as in this comment on Luther's marriage : All the ups and downs of comedy usually end in marriage . It looks as though the ...
... define a condition that hides within it an ultimate blessing . He could ex- press this expectation ironically , as in this comment on Luther's marriage : All the ups and downs of comedy usually end in marriage . It looks as though the ...
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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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