Measure for Measure - comedy, Barnadine, Pompey, MO

1.2 pompey quote about his job

Ill be your tapster still

4.2 comic quote about pompey and his new job

I have been an unlawful bawd but I will be content to be a lawful hangman

4.3 comic quote insinuating that all of the hot house has relocated to the prison (popmey)

I am as well aquainted here as I was in our house of profession

Pompey being sent to prison 3.2 quote

Go to kennel pompey

Sobel critic about pompeys change of job & vice in Vienna

Pompey segues from working as a pimp to a hangman - maybe a hint that the eradication of one vice will lead to the rise of another, more sinister one.

Williams on the bawdy characters

the bawdy characters create a mockery of the state’s attempt to enforce moral standards

Reed on the comic characters and authority

Its questionable whether Lucio, MO and Pompey truly are the fools… who are the real fools: those who openly mock the statues of the state or those who allow it to be mocked

Lucio when he hears he has to marry kate keepdown and also when he figures out hes mega cooked by the duke revealing the disguise

this proves worse than hanging

Lucio on friar lodowick

“saucy friar” “Meddling friar” “I do not like the man”

Lucio reaction to finding out he can stay alive but is still stuck with kate keepdown

“Marrying a punk is pressing to death whipping and hanging”

Lucio getting mad at the Duke for his punishment

“Do not marry me to a whore… I made you a duke to not recompense me by making me a cuckold”

Schulter about lucio

He speaks to women and about women as if they are mere playthings

Barnadine being stubborn

I will not consent to die that certainly

Bloom about Barnadine and his significnace

“But he is there as an acid test of the principle that no human is replaceable or expendable”

Lindley about barnadine

Barnadines presence is superfluous

What does Jameson discuss RE genre theory and Measure for Measure

That comedy can be both semantic & syntactic; Pompey and the minor characters make it semantic.

Waters Bennet, 1966 on measure’s genre

“Measure for Measure skirts the borders of tragedy and comedy”