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‘The play has the whiff of both sexual licence and political intrigue’
Bates and Rasmussen (2022)
‘The comic underworld in Measure for Measure is a critical mirror in which we recognise, inverted, the structures and assumptions central to the plays serious action’
Gibbons (1991)
‘The ‘measure for measure’ passage in St.Johns Gospel is at the heart of Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus lays out his moral code, sharply distinguishing his new convenient of forgiveness from the harsher ‘eye for an eye’ law of the Old Testament’
Bates and Rasmussen (2022)
‘Comedy in this play is distorted and strained by the use of the grotesque so that (…) its exuberant energies remain disruptive and dark’
Gibbons (1991)
‘______ argues that Shakespeare asks a ‘fundamental’ question in Measure for Measure which is: ‘Is any man or woman fit to sit in judgement on a fellow human being’
John Mortimer
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