Shakespeare and the mismeasure of Renaissance man /

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"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."...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Blank, Paula, 1959-2016 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William > Motiv > Grösse (Messung)
Shakespeare, William > Philosophie und Weltanschauung.
Shakespeare, William.
Measurement in literature.
Anthropometry in literature.
Mesure dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Anthropometry in literature
Measurement in literature
Anthropometrie.
Messung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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."

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