Measure for Measure

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Measure for Measure – William Shakespeare

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts,

M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.

In the hope of saving her brother’s life, should a woman

submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its

administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should

religion become? Although Measure for Measure ends like

a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages,

it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeare’s problem

plays. The drama shows the difficulty of effecting an

appropriate balance between judicial severity and mercy,

between sexual repression and decadence, and between

political vigilance and social manipulation. These problems

remain topical, and, in Measure for Measure, they are given

immediacy by vivid character-conflicts and memorably

intense poetry. This is one of Shakespeare’s most probing

and powerful works.

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