Romance and Reformation: The Erasmian Spirit of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure

by Robert Bennett

This book argues that Measure for Measure is not a cynical problem play but a comic romance through which Shakespeare examines Tudor humanism's desire to reform social ills through art.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611491835
• ISBN13: 9781611491838
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 189 Pages