Titlebook: Measure for Measure; T. F. Wharton Textbook 1989Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1989 drama.environment.genre.play

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Text and Context: the Study of the Play’s Historical Environment die:/ “More than our brother is our chastity”’. Evidently, for a 1985 New York audience, the idea of a woman valuing her chastity, particularly with her brother’s life at stake, was ludicrous in the extreme.

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Moral Experiments in Jacobean Drama elsewhere (1980, 1988), the beginning of James I’s reign saw a startling new interest, in the best plays of the ablest playwrights, in the idea of moral subversion. Earlier plays had of course shown evil men. The difference is that these new plays devise ‘heroes’ who not only commit evil acts, but

Bereavement

The Neglect of the Dukedomd. He speaks to Friar Thomas of his failure to enforce these ‘most biting laws’, and while not actually specifying the neglected statutes as sex-laws here, his simile of the ‘needful bits and curbs to headstrong jades’ (‘jades’ is a better reading than the Penguin edition’s ‘weeds’) seems to imply t

Mindfulness

The Experiment ‘Takes’ are shortlived. Time is here so compressed that Angelo has hardly spoken of the uncertainty he feels, and left, than we hear of his first victim. It is the procuress Mistress Overdone who speaks of the specific arrest of Claudio for getting Juliet pregnant, and of the general proclamation about the

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Observing the Experiment intermission between the two major scenes involving Angelo and Isabella. He chooses for this first excursion to visit the prison, and speak with the victims of the laws which are now being enforced. The first results are gratifying. The woman whom Angelo called ‘the fornicatress’ proves meekly and

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The Motives for Experimentieved was to discover exactly what his weak spot was. The laws had been enforced, but only briefly; and now would probably have to be revoked. There seems little knowledge gained here, unless of course, by appointing a second self, the Duke wanted to discover things about himself through Angelo (see

DECRY

The Obstructions to Controlr clearly catches Vincentio off guard; though it must be said that on this occasion he improvises with exceptional skill and speed. Elsewhere, the ragged edges begin to show. There is a distinct impression of haste as he summons up his cohorts: ‘Go call Flavius’ house, And tell him where I stay. Giv

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Conclusione important to sift out from our responses that part of us that resents the Duke, simply because he thinks he has the right to manipulate his subjects. The fact is that rulers of that time — kings in England, and sometimes Dukes abroad — . have that right.

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