The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0533 Wednesday, 7 March 2001
From: David Wilson-Okamura <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 06 Mar 2001 09:56:44 -0600
Subject: Re: Mannerist Measure for Measure
Jane Drake Brody wrote:
>I will be leading a discussion of Measure for Measure as a Mannerist
>play and am wondering if anyone one the list has any thoughts on the
>topic. We are using "The Four Stages of Renaissance Style" by Wiley
>Sypher as our major text.
Have a look at G. K. Hunter, _English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of
Shakespeare_, pp. 309-18, 388-89. He doesn't use the term mannerist, but
he does set some of the play's stranger features into a larger dramatic
context.
