Romance and Reformation: The Erasmian Spirit of Shakespeare's Measure for MeasureUniversity of Delaware Press, 2000 - 189 páginas 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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... sense that virtue exists only within the frameworks of intention and free choice , and transactional in the sense that actions are conceived of as a sharing that invites re- sponse . A humanist education valued language as an effective ...
... sense that virtue exists only within the frameworks of intention and free choice , and transactional in the sense that actions are conceived of as a sharing that invites re- sponse . A humanist education valued language as an effective ...
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... sense that he has nothing practical to gain by saying it ; hence , there is all the less reason for a hearer to suppose it to be untrue . Such unqualified mendacity gives point to Lucio's suggested kinship by name with Lucifer , the ...
... sense that he has nothing practical to gain by saying it ; hence , there is all the less reason for a hearer to suppose it to be untrue . Such unqualified mendacity gives point to Lucio's suggested kinship by name with Lucifer , the ...
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... sense of vulnerability and increased de- pendency on others . In the best sense it will foster community . It is not easy to defy the selfish impulse to preserve a stable identity , but grace accepted releases one from the confines of ...
... sense of vulnerability and increased de- pendency on others . In the best sense it will foster community . It is not easy to defy the selfish impulse to preserve a stable identity , but grace accepted releases one from the confines of ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Logos in the Humanist Rhetorical Tradition | 24 |
Measure for Measure as Comic Romance | 55 |
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Romance and Reformation: The Erasmian Spirit of Shakespeare's Measure for ... Robert B. Bennett Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
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