Measure for Measure (Vol. 49) | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Baines, Barbara J. "Assaying the Power of Chastity in Measure for Measure." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 30, No. 2 (Spring 1990) 283-301.
Argues that the in the play, chastity is clearly aligned with power and that Isabella's situation and "choice" represent cultural, societal values--not simply Isabella's own religious values.
Black, James. "The Unfolding of 'Measure for Measure'." Shakespeare Survey 26 (1973): 119-28.
Analyzes Shakespeare's use of the bed-trick and maintains that the playwright intended "to convey the sense that Mariana in sleeping with Angelo has done something right, and that the playturns upon the positive virtue of her action."
Bradbrook, M. C. "The Balance and the Sword in Measure for Measure." In The Artist and Society in Shakespeare's England: The Collected Papers of Muriel Bradbrook, Vol. I, pp. 144-54....
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