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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... mind toward the cos- mic universe within which humans exist . Though the cynical Jaques sees all the world as a stage , the humanist playwright using comic romance sees the reverse vision : the Globe theatre is all the world . Erasmus ...
... mind toward the cos- mic universe within which humans exist . Though the cynical Jaques sees all the world as a stage , the humanist playwright using comic romance sees the reverse vision : the Globe theatre is all the world . Erasmus ...
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... mind that was essentially dramatic.3 In this chapter , I would like to explore this facet of Renaissance Christian humanism , which , though it was deeply influenced by the literature of antiquity , had its center in Erasmus's ...
... mind that was essentially dramatic.3 In this chapter , I would like to explore this facet of Renaissance Christian humanism , which , though it was deeply influenced by the literature of antiquity , had its center in Erasmus's ...
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... mind - set by training a speaker or writer to adapt to audience and circumstances , in the rhetoric of Eras- mian Christian humanism , dramatic sensibility developed , even more fundamentally , from the narrative of Christian history ...
... mind - set by training a speaker or writer to adapt to audience and circumstances , in the rhetoric of Eras- mian Christian humanism , dramatic sensibility developed , even more fundamentally , from the narrative of Christian history ...
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... as it is more truly in the disposition of the mind than in syllogisms , life means more than debate , inspiration is preferable to erudition , transformation is a more important 1 : THE LOGOS IN THE HUMANIST RHETORICAL TRADITION 31.
... as it is more truly in the disposition of the mind than in syllogisms , life means more than debate , inspiration is preferable to erudition , transformation is a more important 1 : THE LOGOS IN THE HUMANIST RHETORICAL TRADITION 31.
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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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