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Edited by Brian Gibbons

Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early in the twentieth century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favourite with the critics and has attracted widely different styles of performance. At one extreme, the play is seen as a religious allegory; at the other, it has been interpreted as a comedy protesting against power and privilege.

Brian Gibbons focuses on the unique tragi-comic experience of watching the play, the intensity and excitement offered by its dramatic rhythm, the reversals and surprises which shock the audience even to the end. His introduction considers how the play's critical reception and stage history have varied according to prevailing social, moral and religious issues, which were highly sensitive when Measure for Measure was written, and have remained so to the present day.

This updated edition contains a new introductory section by Angela Stock, which describes recent stage, film and critical interpretations, and an updated reading list.

About The New Cambridge Shakespeare Series

The New Cambridge Shakespeare is an edition of Shakespeare's works, consisting of a separate volume for each play, and a volume each for the Sonnets and the narrative poems. The texts have been prepared by an international team of the very best scholars, who provide in each case a freshly-considered and modernised text, a substantial introduction and commentary at the foot of the page. The series pays particular attention to the play in performance, commenting on the stage action and offering a performance history with illustrations. It is aimed at students of Shakespeare from A level or its equivalent, and onwards, including undergraduates, graduates and teachers.

An international team of scholars offers:modernized, easily accessible texts

ample commentary and introductions

attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history

informative illustrationsContents

& 8220;List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Conventions

Introduction

 Date

 Puritanism, political allusion and censorship

 The sources and their shaping

  Cinthio

  Whetstone

  Severus

  The Phoenix

  The Malcontent

  The Mode of Tragi-Comedy

  Contemporary Allusions

  Sejanus

 The play

  Underworld and Sub-Plots

  Carnival and Justice: Word-Play and Self-Defence

  Angelo and Isabella: Word-Play and Self-Betrayal

  Exchanges

  The Question of the Duke

  Acting

  Playing with Audiences

  The Question of Tragi-Comedy

 The play on the stage

 Recent stage, film and critical interpretations, by Angela Stock

  Criticism

  Recent Stage and Film Productions

Note on the text

List of characters

Measure for Measure

Textual analysis

 The nature of the copy

  The Compositors and Casting-Off of Copy

  The Scribe

  Juliet in 1.2

  Possible Toning-Down of Oaths

  The Justice in 2.1

  The Duke's Speech in 4.1

  4.3 And 4.5: Lucio and Varrius

  The Time Scheme

 Summary: the nature of the copy

 Lineation

  Verse and Prose

  Short Lines

 Textual cruces and editors

Reading list& 8221;

Tags: qShakespeare, qDrama, qLiterature, qLiteraryCriticism

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