by A.R. Braunmuller, Brian Gibbons, William Shakespeare
When I was recently in London I picked up a box set at The Globe containing a collection of plays that they had filmed and kindly decided to release. As such when I sat down on the train and began reading this play I half expected to be able to then go and watch it at a later date. As it turned out ...
The more I read of Shakespeare the more I think that the best way to think of him is as an experimental author and Measure for Measure is one of his more experimental plays. It is based on what was essentially a contemporary urban myth of a man who has been sentenced to die for having sex outside o...
Measure for Measure is a play about lust in the sense that Claudio has been sleeping with a woman, Juliet even though they are not married. Is it love or is it lust. In my mind this is really love turned into lust because they had been married, but could not acknowledge it because of some problem w...
Measure for Measure was perhaps my least favorite Shakespeare play I read in my class a couple semesters back. I sometimes have difficulty grasping the concept of Shakespeare’s “comedies,” because I am used to comedies being funny instead of simply having everyone get married to different people at ...
[book:Measure for Measure|1936587|] is about Angelo, who is put temporarily in charge by the Duke of Vienna, and Claudio who has gotten his "wife" pregnant. Because the church banns were not published, Angelo has Claudio arrested and sentenced to Death for fornication. Claudio requests that his sist...
As someone whose passion for reading started with a Shakespeare play, I have to say that this was not my favorite. In no way was it bad or unreadable, I just did not connect with the story line as much as I thought I would. This was the first Shakespeare play that I had trouble following and unders...
Nothing short of fascinating. The folger edition provides a very adequate amount of information without overwhelming the reader, and the layout, which sets the textual footnotes on the left page and the text on the right instead of separating the text and the footnotes, is very much appreciated.
The pride and hypocrisy of ideologues fill Measure to Measure. As the title implies, moderate sensibilities become the virtuous ones by the play’s end. The extremes are rounded. The cracks in Angelo’s strict piousness are revealed and Isabella’s chaste virtue is tarnished by her pimping of Marian...
Measure for Measure, as the title suggests, is all about weighing out appropriate portions – of love, of mercy, of justice. The plot is simple enough. The Duke of Vienna, concerned that his people have thrown off restraint and have sunk too far into liberty, leaves the city in the hands of Angelo, a...
This play truly reads like an 18th century Gothic romance! A lover’s to be executed for impregnating his ladylove outside of the sanctity of wedlock. To save said lover from the chopping block, the evil and covetous deputy of justice blackmails the man’s sister to surrender her “virtue” to him. Quit...
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