Shakespeare and the mismeasure of Renaissance man
"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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801444753, 0801444756
64397800
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."