Titlebook: Measure for Measure; T. F. Wharton Textbook 1989Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1989 drama.environment.genre.play

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The Duke’s Self-ImageYet Lucio continues to object. He does not want to marry the whore. It is worse than whipping and hanging. The Duke’s reply is revealing: ‘slandering a prince deserves it’. In other words, Lucio’s slanders are not in fact forgiven: his marriage to the whore is his punishment. Lucio had struck the Duke on his most delicate point, his self-image.

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Boycott

The Obstructions to Controls no time for the elaborate welcome pageant found in Whetstone’s play, the main source. When Angelo reads Vincentio’s scrambled letters announcing his return, he says they ‘show much like to madness’ [IV. iv. 4].

斗争

Theme and Charactera middle way between the over-generous laxity of the Duke’s former regime, and the over-harsh severity of Angelo’s new one. A small group of scholars have therefore claimed that the play’s main theme is a plea in favour of equity.

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The Neglect of the Dukedomhat the kind of crimes involved are those of youth and wilfulness rather than viciousness. Likewise, the mention in the same speech [I. iii. 19–30] of ‘liberty pluck[ing] justice by the nose’ seems to indicate nothing more than sins of libertinism or impudence.

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