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Measure for measure / William Shakespeare.

By: Shakespeare, William [author.]Contributor(s): Braunmuller, A. R, 1945 [editor.] | Watson, Robert N [editor.]Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Great Britain : Bloomsbury Plc, c2020Description: xix, 416 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN: 978-1-904271-43-7Subject(s): SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, 1564-1616 | SIBLINGS -- DRAMA | CORRUPTION -- DRAMA | CHASTITY -- DRAMALOC classification: PR 2824 M43 2020

Contents:

Part 1 : Introduction. -- Part 2 : Genres and generations. -- Part 3 : The morals of measure for measure. -- Part 4 : Morality. -- Part 5 : Substitution. -- Part 6 : Sexuality, law and marriage. -- Part 7 : Consent. -- Part 8 : Catholicism, Protestantism and Puritanism. -- Part 9 : Love. -- Part 10 : The Ending. -- Part 11 : Characters: The Duke -- Isabella -- Angelo -- Mariana -- Claudio -- Lucio -- Literary and Dramatic Sources -- Cinthio -- Whetstone -- Lupton -- The repertoire of Shakespeare's company -- Some other possible literary sources -- King James -- Date -- Middleton -- First Response -- The Play Onstage: From Prudery to Politics -- Measure for Measure as Golden Meaning -- The Duke Meets his Maker -- Measure for Measure. -- Bibliographical references.

Summary: "The Arden Shakespeare has long set the gold standard in annotated, scholarly editions of Shakespeare's plays. Each Arden edition in the Third Series offers a modernized text with comprehensive commentary notes glossing meanings, discussing staging issues and explaining literary allusions, together with a lengthy, illustrated introduction by a leading scholar exploring the play's critical, theatrical and historical contexts. The Arden editions thus offer readers an authoritative modernized text with on-screen pop up Commentary and textual notes to aid understanding, complemented by a comprehensive critical and contextual introduction" --Publishers̀ website

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	NU Fairview College LRC	NU Fairview College LRC	Non-fiction	General Circulation	GC PR 2824 M43 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Non-Fiction		NUFAI000005760

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"The Arden Shakespeare has long set the gold standard in annotated, scholarly editions of Shakespeare's plays. Each Arden edition in the Third Series offers a modernized text with comprehensive commentary notes glossing meanings, discussing staging issues and explaining literary allusions, together with a lengthy, illustrated introduction by a leading scholar exploring the play's critical, theatrical and historical contexts. The Arden editions thus offer readers an authoritative modernized text with on-screen pop up Commentary and textual notes to aid understanding, complemented by a comprehensive critical and contextual introduction" --Publishers̀ website

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