Romance and Reformation: The Erasmian Spirit of Shakespeare's Measure for MeasureUniversity of Delaware Press, 2000 - 189 Seiten 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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... thousand bawdy , or even blasphemous , jokes do not help towards a man's damnation so much as his discovery that almost any- thing he wants to do can be done , not only without the disapproval but with the admiration of his fellows , if ...
... thousand bawdy , or even blasphemous , jokes do not help towards a man's damnation so much as his discovery that almost any- thing he wants to do can be done , not only without the disapproval but with the admiration of his fellows , if ...
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... thousand prayers for thy death " 3.1.145 ) , rhetorics of reformation untuned to natu- ral process - aggressive and forcing rather than adaptive - invite a tragic direction to human events . The sequence of actions charts the testing ...
... thousand prayers for thy death " 3.1.145 ) , rhetorics of reformation untuned to natu- ral process - aggressive and forcing rather than adaptive - invite a tragic direction to human events . The sequence of actions charts the testing ...
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... thousand prayers for thy death " ( 3.1.145 ) signals an imperfect spirit and in- dicates that her action is wrong not in that she had denied Clau- dio's request but in that the intention informing her denial is far from piety and ...
... thousand prayers for thy death " ( 3.1.145 ) signals an imperfect spirit and in- dicates that her action is wrong not in that she had denied Clau- dio's request but in that the intention informing her denial is far from piety and ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Logos in the Humanist Rhetorical Tradition | 24 |
Measure for Measure as Comic Romance | 55 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Romance and Reformation: The Erasmian Spirit of Shakespeare's Measure for ... Robert B. Bennett Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2000 |
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