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Measure for measure (New ed.)

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When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his financee, Julietta, pregnant, a series of ethical issues is brought under scrutiny.

His sister's virtue is held to ransom by the deputy rule of the city until justice is done, mercy shown, and order restored. This is among Shakespeare's most vivid dramatic projections of moral duplicity.

The introduction discusses the origins of his treatment of the well-known story and examines his sources.

The editor also sets the play in its historical context and offers the most comprehensive available account of the text's theatrical life from Restoration adaptations to present-day productions.

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Product Details
Oxford University Press
0199535841 / 9780199535842
Paperback / softback
822.33
17/04/2008
United Kingdom
English
272 p. : ill.
20 cm
Reprint. This ed. originally published: Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.