Romance and Reformation: The Erasmian Spirit of Shakespeare's Measure for MeasureIt 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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... Doctor Faustus and Other Plays . Edited by David Beving- ton and Eric Rasmussen . New York : Oxford University Press , 1995 . Marston , John . The Malcontent . Edited by George K. Hunter . London : Methuen , 1975 . MacCulloch , Diarmaid ...
... Doctor Faustus and Other Plays . Edited by David Beving- ton and Eric Rasmussen . New York : Oxford University Press , 1995 . Marston , John . The Malcontent . Edited by George K. Hunter . London : Methuen , 1975 . MacCulloch , Diarmaid ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Logos in the Humanist Rhetorical Tradition | 24 |
Measure for Measure as Comic Romance | 55 |
Copyright | |
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