Measure for Measure, 9780192865861
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Corrupt power, silenced women: A dark comedy of moral measure.

Measure for Measure

The New Oxford Shakespeare

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  • Paperback

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    13 October 2025

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Summary

‘Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.’

Can one life be measured against another? Can a woman’s body be measured against a man’s life? Can consensual sex be measured against rape? Measure for Measure explores these questions through a series of substitutions: Angelo deputises for the Duke, who disguises himself to spy on his subjects; corrupt Angelo demands that almost-nun Isabella gives her body in exchange for her brother’s life; and the Duke substitutes living bodies and decap…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780192865861
ISBN-10:0192865862
Author:William Shakespeare, Terri Bourus, Emma Smith
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:13 October 2025
Weight:148g
Dimensions:295mm x 127mm x 11mm
Series:Oxford World's Classics
About The Author

William Shakespeare

Emma Whipday is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University. She studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and UCL; has taught at King’s College London, Shakespeare’s Globe, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and Brasenose College, Oxford; and held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at UCL and Newcastle. Her publications include Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies (2019; co-winner of Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award 2020); TeachingShakespeare and His Sisters (2023); the co-edited essay collection Playing and Playgoing (2022); and the play Shakespeare’s Sister (2016).

Terri Bourus is Professor of Theatre and Professor of English at Florida StateUniversity. She is a General Editor of the four-part New Oxford Shakespeare (2016-2017), and the author of Young Shakespeare’s Young Hamlet (2014). She has written essays on stage directions, the performance of religious conversion, Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Cardenio, the role of Alice in Arden of Faversham, and Middleton’s female roles. Bourus is an Equity actor, and has directed and acted in, two very different productions of Hamlet, both based onQ1.

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