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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... play . Behind Sid- ney's injunction " look in thy heart and 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 ) ...
... play . Behind Sid- ney's injunction " look in thy heart and 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 ) ...
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... play ? Was there a legitimate argu- ment against those who saw the theatre not as an agent of reform but as a social menace ? Understanding how the drama , and specifically Measure for Mea- sure , could have been presumed powerful ...
... play ? Was there a legitimate argu- ment against those who saw the theatre not as an agent of reform but as a social menace ? Understanding how the drama , and specifically Measure for Mea- sure , could have been presumed powerful ...
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... player " ( 4 ) . Lanham also stresses that rhetorical training provided an education in toler- ance ( 5-7 ) , that ... plays the qualities of humility , piety , and tolerance that were central aims of humanist rhetoric , both as oratory ...
... player " ( 4 ) . Lanham also stresses that rhetorical training provided an education in toler- ance ( 5-7 ) , that ... plays the qualities of humility , piety , and tolerance that were central aims of humanist rhetoric , both as oratory ...
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... plays — the second tetralogy , Hamlet , Measure for Measure , King Lear , Antony and Cleopatra , and The Winter's Tale as ... play's particular situations and concerns with an archetypal model of reformative process . One is Isabella's ...
... plays — the second tetralogy , Hamlet , Measure for Measure , King Lear , Antony and Cleopatra , and The Winter's Tale as ... play's particular situations and concerns with an archetypal model of reformative process . One is Isabella's ...
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... play . In attempting to describe this idea of reform , I give considerable attention to the humanist's understanding ... plays generate real insights and feeling through sounds , im- ages , and actions that are , on the literal level ...
... play . In attempting to describe this idea of reform , I give considerable attention to the humanist's understanding ... plays generate real insights and feeling through sounds , im- ages , and actions that are , on the literal level ...
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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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