Mesure Pour Mesure
1623
Mesure Pour Mesure
1623
Translated by François Guizot
A comedy written in the early 17th century. The play explores themes of justice, morality, and the complex interplay between authority and individual desires, centering on the characters of Claudio, a young nobleman sentenced to death, and his sister Isabella, who seeks to save him from execution. The beginning of the play introduces the audience to the Duke of Vienna, who decides to delegate his power to Angelo while he disguises himself as a common friar. With the Duke absent, Angelo enforces strict laws that have long been dormant, resulting in Claudio's arrest for getting his fiancée, Juliet, pregnant before marriage. Isabella learns of her brother’s dire situation and is determined to plead for his life, only to discover that Angelo demands her virginity in exchange for her brother's release. The opening sets up a complicated web of moral dilemmas and urgent conflicts that promise to unravel in the ensuing acts.
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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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