Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Renaissance ManCornell University Press, 2006 - 214 Seiten 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 principles of measurement to the appraisal of human value. This is especially true of efforts to judge people as better or worse than, or equal to, one another. 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.From scales and spans to squares and levels to ratings and rules, Shakespeare's rhetoric of measurement reveals the extent to which language in the Renaissance was itself understood as a set of alternative measures for figuring human worth. In chapters that explore attempts to measure human feeling, weigh human equalities (and inequalities), regulate race relations, and deduce social and economic merit, Blank shows why Shakespeare's measures are so often exposed as "mismeasures"--equivocal, provisional, and as unreliable as the men and women they are designed to assess. |
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... King Lear " by Paula Blank in Exemplaria : A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 15.2 ( Autumn 2003 ) : 471-506 . Pegasus Press , P.O. Box 15806 , Asheville , NC 28813. Copy- right © 2003 . Copyright © 2006 by Cornell ...
... King Lear 118 S • THE LESBIAN RULE OF MEASURE FOR MEASURE 153 EPILOGUE : HOW SMART IS HAMLET ? Shakespeare and Renaissance " Intelligence Testing " 191 Bibliography 199 Index 207 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank the National ...
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