Measure for Measure
by William Shakespeare · first published 1700
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This play examines the nature of mercy and justice, proposing that a good government is one that is flexible and based on common sense.
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…Milton hopes to create a Satan that has some subtle and mixed characters, with depth, with a spectrum of shades. I feel this method is similarly employed in many Shakespeare's plays (such as Angelo in Measure for Measure), which were written even earlier than Paradise Lost.
on “Milton's Morality: Fallen Man and the Fallen Stature of 'Paradise Lost'” ↗I feel another place in Measure for Measure that also indicates the depth and the subtlety of Angelo's character is that his monologue in Act II Scene IV, When I would pray and think, I think and pray To several subjects. Heaven hath my empty…
on “Milton's Morality: Fallen Man and the Fallen Stature of 'Paradise Lost'” ↗…Heathen Heresy but I never enjoyed Shakespeare. As part of my English studies I have read the following ones - Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Winter’s…
on “Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems” ↗Shakespeare is perhaps the most over-rated play write ever. Sure he wrote a few good plays - 'Hamlet', 'Othello', a few other tragedies of note. But most of his stuff was pretty mediocre - 'Measure for Measure' for instance - or outright sucked - 'Romeo and Juliet' perhaps being one of the worst plays ever conceived. Compared to say, Sophocles of old, or, in our time, people like Harold Pinter or Edward Albee,…
on “Portrait of Shakespeare Unveiled, 399 Years Late” ↗