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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... mean- ing outside of a context , apart from the circumstances that inform it . Chapters 2 , 3 and 4 discuss the contexts that should affect our response to the play's action . Chapter 2 deals with genre — with the importance , that is ...
... mean- ing outside of a context , apart from the circumstances that inform it . Chapters 2 , 3 and 4 discuss the contexts that should affect our response to the play's action . Chapter 2 deals with genre — with the importance , that is ...
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... means of dialectic , drawing upon the Logos , the soul of humanism . The power of this dialectical force in humanist drama , as in humanist rhetoric , was not to be measured in its effects on the fictional characters but in the effects ...
... means of dialectic , drawing upon the Logos , the soul of humanism . The power of this dialectical force in humanist drama , as in humanist rhetoric , was not to be measured in its effects on the fictional characters but in the effects ...
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... mean that such changes really take place in the nature of God . These are rather modes of ex- pression , benefitting our weakmindedness and dullness . ( De libero ar- bitrio , trans . Winter , 12 ; LB IX , 1218 A - B ) God himself ...
... mean that such changes really take place in the nature of God . These are rather modes of ex- pression , benefitting our weakmindedness and dullness . ( De libero ar- bitrio , trans . Winter , 12 ; LB IX , 1218 A - B ) God himself ...
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... means for moving humankind to embrace faith , hope , and charity as guiding life principles . As a humanist reformer , Erasmus worked to activate that di- vinely - given means by making available Latin translations of 30 ROMANCE AND ...
... means for moving humankind to embrace faith , hope , and charity as guiding life principles . As a humanist reformer , Erasmus worked to activate that di- vinely - given means by making available Latin translations of 30 ROMANCE AND ...
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... means by making available Latin translations of the Greek New Testament . Scripture gains its power to effect moral ref- ormation , he explained in his Paraclesis ( 1516 ) , not by requiring assent to doctrine but by imparting moral ...
... means by making available Latin translations of the Greek New Testament . Scripture gains its power to effect moral ref- ormation , he explained in his Paraclesis ( 1516 ) , not by requiring assent to doctrine but by imparting moral ...
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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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