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Shakespeare and the mismeasure of Renaissance man

Title
Shakespeare and the mismeasure of Renaissance man / Paula Blank.
Author
Blank, Paula, 1959-2016
Publication
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.

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Description
214 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"With special attention to the Sonnets, Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Othello, King Lear, and Hamlet, Paula Blank argues that Shakespeare, in his experiments with measurement, demonstrates the incommensurability of the aims and operations of quantification with human experience."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
  • Shakespeare, William > Motiv > Grösse (Messung)
  • Shakespeare, William > Philosophie und Weltanschauung
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Measurement in literature
  • Anthropometry in literature
  • Anthropometrie
  • Messung
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and index.
Contents
The Renaissance art of measurement -- Poetic numbers and Shakespeare's "lines of life" -- Pounds of flesh : race relations in the Venice plays -- Shakespeare's social arithmetics : checking the math of King Lear -- The Lesbian rule of Measure for measure -- How smart is Hamlet? : Shakespeare and Renaissance "intelligence testing."
ISBN
  • 0801444756
  • 9780801444753
LCCN
  • 2006006244
  • 9780801444753
OCLC
  • ocm64397800
  • 64397800
  • SCSB-14645114
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library