Measure for Measure | Lucio (Character Analysis)
He is a fashionable, dissipated gentleman and a friend of Claudio. During his first appearance in the play, he jokes with two other gentleman about soldiers, prostitutes, and venereal disease. However, once he hears that Claudio has been arrested and condemned to death, Lucio stops his joking and rushes off to "learn the truth of it" (I.ii.81).
Critics have pointed out that Lucio's character is a mixture of widely different traits. He is a go-between, a good friend, a heartless lecher, a comic, a liar, and a gadfly who, unlike the other characters in the play, remains rebellious to the...
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