Measure for Measure (Paperback, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Wordsworth Classics
Release date:	May 1995
First published:	May 1995
Authors:	William Shakespeare
Editors:	Cedric Watts (Emeritus Professor of English)
Introduction by:	Cedric Watts (Emeritus Professor of English)
Notes by:	Cedric Watts (Emeritus Professor of English)
Series editors:	Keith Carabine
Dimensions:	198 x 126 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	144
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-85326-251-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare plays, texts
LSN:	1-85326-251-X
Barcode:	9781853262517

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