Measure for Measure: The Oxford Shakespeare
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- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2008
Summary
When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his fiancée, Julietta, pregnant, a series of ethical issues is brought under scrutiny. His sister’s virtue is held to ransom by the deputy ruler 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 th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199535842 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199535841 |
| Author: | William Shakespeare, N.W. Bawcutt |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2008 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 129mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Critics Review
‘well-balanced, intelligent, and slightly detached from the play and its issues’J.G. Saunders, Review of English Studies, Vol. 45, No. 177, Feb, 1994
`The introduction is quite informative and sensible, the text accurate and handsome, the notes solicitous enough to sustain a beginning student and deep enough to support scholarly uses … another good edition of the play: highly learned, handsome, accurate, and fair-minded.‘Robert N. Watson, Shakespeare Quarterly, Summer ‘93’well-balanced, intelligent, and slightly detached from the play and its issues’J.G. Saunders, Review of English Studies, Vol. 45, No. 177, Feb, 1994
About The Author
William Shakespeare
N. R. Bawcutt is Reader in English Literature, University of Liverpool.
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