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Measure for Measure: A Dark Shakespearean Comedy of Law, Mercy, and Corruption
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515425038
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Measure for Measure is one of William Shakespeare's darkest comedies, a searching play of law, mercy, desire, corruption, disguise, and moral judgment. When Duke Vincentio leaves Vienna in the hands of the severe Angelo, long-neglected laws are suddenly enforced with brutal rigidity. Claudio is sentenced to death for fornication, and his sister Isabella, a novice nun, pleads for mercy. Angelo then reveals the hypocrisy beneath his public virtue, offering to spare Claudio only if Isabella yields her chastity to him.
Often called one of Shakespeare's problem plays, Measure for Measure resists simple classification. It contains comic devices-disguise, substitution, reversals, hidden authority-but its central questions are grave: how justice should be tempered by mercy, what happens when rulers police private morality, how public virtue can mask private corruption, and whether human institutions can judge human frailty fairly. For readers of Shakespeare, classic drama, English literature, Renaissance theatre, legal and moral conflict, and dark comedy, Measure for Measure remains one of Shakespeare's most unsettling and intellectually powerful plays.
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