Measure for Measure (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Shakespeare
- First Published: 1623
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragicomedy
- Time of Work: Sixteenth century
- Setting: Vienna
- Principal Characters: Vincentio, Angelo, Escalus, Claudio, Lucio, Isabella, Mariana, Juliet
- Genres: Drama, Comedy, Tragedy, Tragicomedy
- Subjects: Politics, Honesty, Ethics, Corruption, Government, Sixteenth century, Austria or Austrians, Nobility, Cowards or cowardliness
- Locales: Vienna, Austria
The Story:
The growing political and moral corruption of Vienna was a great worry to its kindly, temperate ruler, Duke Vincentio. Knowing that he himself was as much to blame for the troubles as anyone because he had been lax in the enforcement of existing laws, the duke tried to devise a scheme to revive the old discipline of civic authority.
Fearing that reforms instituted by himself might seem too harsh for his people to accept without protest, he decided to appoint a deputy governor and to leave the country for a while. Angelo, a respected and intelligent city...
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