Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Renaissance Man / / Paula Blank.
Shakespeare's poems and plays are rich in reference to "measure, number, and weight," which were the key terms of an early modern empirical and quantitative imagination. Shakespeare's investigation of Renaissance measures of reality centers on the consequences of applying princip...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2006 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 2 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. THE RENAISSANCE ART OF MEASUREMENT
- 2. POETIC NUMBERS AND SHAKESPEARE'S "LINES OF LIFE"
- 3. POUNDS OF FLESH
- 4. SHAKESPEARE'S SOCIAL ARITHMETICS
- 5. THE LESBIAN RULE OF MEASURE FOR MEASURE
- EPILOGUE: HOW SMART IS HAMLET?
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX