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...
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 quanti...
The modern alliance between politics and language in Europe was forged in the Renaissance. Blank argues that the linguistic exuberance of writers such as Shakespeare was the result of a struggle for possession of the vernacular.
The modern alliance between politics and language in Europe was forged in the Renaissance. Blank argues that the linguistic exuberance of writers such...
