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- The basic plot which Shakespeare employed in Measure for Measure was not new to that play. Its ultimate source was a historical incident supposed to have occurred near Milan in 1547. A young wife prostituted herself to save her condemned husband. The magistrate who had forced the woman to yield to him proceeded to execute her husband.
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Measure for Measure is a play rooted deeply in early seventeenth-century culture; at the same time, it retains a powerful hold on the imaginations of modern readers. In an attempt to suggest why Measure for Measure continues to be among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare’s plays, we might think about the ways that the seventeenth ...
Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604 and first performed in 1604, according to available records. It was published in the First Folio of 1623.
Measure for Measure, a “dark” comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1603–04 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript of an authorial draft. The play examines the complex interplay of mercy and justice.
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The play was never performed, but a story based on it was included in 1582, as a tale in Whetstone's Heptameron of Civill Discourses. Shakespeare probably was aware of all four of Cinthio's and Whetstone's versions of the basic plot. He may also have known of the original true incident and of other similar, supposed historic situations on record.
A simple moral mathematics, one that divides the world into angels and devils, governs the notion that an unjust judge must pay with his life for his innocent prisoner’s “death.” Paradoxically, the logic of “measure for measure” depends as well on a contrary assumption, that Angelo and Claudio are indistinguishable from one another.
Historical Background. 1. King James. For more than two centuries, readers and critics have argued for connections between King James I, who became King of England in 1603, and Measure for Measure, which was performed for James’s court in Whitehall on December 26, 1604.
Overview. Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare that was first performed in 1604. The play’s structure is based around secret identities and a great deal of manipulation. It is considered a comedy, albeit a particularly dark comedy given its inherent bitterness and cynicism.
