Measure for Measure: The Works of William Shakespeare [cambridge Edition] [9 Vols.]
1623
Measure for Measure: The Works of William Shakespeare [cambridge Edition] [9 Vols.]
1623
Among Shakespeare's most unsettling works, Measure for Measure asks what happens when puritans are given absolute power. The Duke of Vienna conveniently disappears, leaving his uptight deputy Angelo to clean up a city that thrives on vice. Angelo's first act: sentencing a young man to death for getting his fiancée pregnant. Into this moral labyrinth steps Isabella, the accused man's sister, a novitiate nun whose virtue becomes Angelo's obsession. The Duke, disguised as a wandering friar, watches everything from the shadows, orchestrating a resolution that raises as many questions as it answers. This is a comedy that isn't funny, a tragedy that refuses to end in death, and a meditation on justice that refuses to resolve into neat moral certainty. Shakespeare dissects hypocrisy, desire, and the thin membrane between lawful authority and tyrannical abuse with surgical precision.
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“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.””
— William Shakespeare
“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?””
— William Shakespeare
“Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. ””
— William Shakespeare
“Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.””
— William Shakespeare
“But man, proud man,Dress'd in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd”
— William Shakespeare
“It is excellent To have a giant's strength But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant””
— William Shakespeare
“Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.””
— William Shakespeare
“O, it is excellentTo have a giant's strenght, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.””
— William Shakespeare
“What's his offense?Groping for trout in a peculiar river.””
— William Shakespeare
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