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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... rules and conventions of sonneteering in the process of declaring that rules and conventions only get in the way of true expression , which , he says , must come from the heart . To a humanist like Sidney , this performance was not self ...
... rules and conventions of sonneteering in the process of declaring that rules and conventions only get in the way of true expression , which , he says , must come from the heart . To a humanist like Sidney , this performance was not self ...
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... rules . The present study points out that within Shakespeare's comic ro- mances the vital ambiguity and tempering power of the Logos often finds expression in the figure of a mentor or facilitator who acts in the reformist mode of the ...
... rules . The present study points out that within Shakespeare's comic ro- mances the vital ambiguity and tempering power of the Logos often finds expression in the figure of a mentor or facilitator who acts in the reformist mode of the ...
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... rules , consti- tuted a person's closest , truest relationship to nature's own good- ness . In the letter to John Volz ( EE 858 ) prefacing his 1518 edition of Enchiridion , Erasmus explains why he keeps his guidelines for behavior ...
... rules , consti- tuted a person's closest , truest relationship to nature's own good- ness . In the letter to John Volz ( EE 858 ) prefacing his 1518 edition of Enchiridion , Erasmus explains why he keeps his guidelines for behavior ...
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... rule you play the part of a kind of Democritus in human life at large . Yet , though as a rule you disagree widely with vulgar opinions be- cause of that singularly penetrating wit of yours , nevertheless , your af- fability and ...
... rule you play the part of a kind of Democritus in human life at large . Yet , though as a rule you disagree widely with vulgar opinions be- cause of that singularly penetrating wit of yours , nevertheless , your af- fability and ...
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... rule of the barroom , drink up or get out — all of which amounts to demanding that the play should no longer be a play . On the other hand , the truly prudent man reflects that since he is mortal himself , he shouldn't want to be wiser ...
... rule of the barroom , drink up or get out — all of which amounts to demanding that the play should no longer be a play . On the other hand , the truly prudent man reflects that since he is mortal himself , he shouldn't want to be wiser ...
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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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