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Romance and reformation : the Erasmian spirit of Shakespeare's Measure for measure
- Title
- Romance and reformation : the Erasmian spirit of Shakespeare's Measure for measure / Robert B. Bennett.
- Author
- Bennett, Robert B., 1941-2020
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2000.
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- Description
- 189 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "This book is an inquiry, through Measure for Measure, into Shakespeare's understanding of drama as a vehicle for social reform. 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.
- Shakespeare explored this question in Measure for Measure at a time when the humanist consensus of roughly a century's duration in English culture seemed about to be eclipsed by a hardening of the positions of people who held opposing views on social issues."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 > Influence
- Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
- Erasmus, Desiderius
- Shakespeare, William
- Measure for measure (Shakespeare, William)
- Measure for measure
- 1600-1699
- Literature and society > England > History > 17th century
- Siblings in literature
- English drama > Dutch influences
- Reformation in literature
- Chastity in literature
- Humanism in literature
- Comedy
- Siblings in literature
- Chastity in literature
- Comedy
- Humanism in literature
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Literature and society
- Reformation in literature
- Sozialreform
- England
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-183) and index.
- Contents
- The logos in the humanist rhetorical tradition -- Measure for measure as comic romance -- Fornication and calumny: the conceptual structure of Measure for measure -- Factionalism and social reform: the dilemma of humanist dramas -- The rhetoric of the logos in Measure for measure -- Appendix: Redemption and damnation: Measure for measure and Othello as contrasting paired visions.
- ISBN
- 0874136717
- 9780874136715
- LCCN
- 99039897
- OCLC
- ocm41951276
- 41951276
- SCSB-14693959
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library