Measure For Measure AO5
- Created by: Becca Newman
- Created on: 19-02-20 11:25
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- Measure For Measure AO5
- Feminist Perspective
- Isabella shouldn't be manipulating another vulnerable women
- critical of his manipulation of two vulnerable, whatever his motives are
- 2015 Globe Production
- Use of physical comedy (Act 2 scene 1 in particular) eg. Elbow
- All characters danced at the end, gave it a joyous ending
- Furthermore Isabella and the Duke danced together - giving it an infereable conclusion
- Micheal Billington
- the play is an 'eternal conflict of justice and mercy'
- 2004 Natioanl Theatre Production
- Billington - 'Shakespeare is as much about political power as Old Testament and New Testament ideas about justice'
- Documents Angelo's self-harm
- 2018 Donmar Production
- the first half was set in the 17th century
- In the second half the genders were swapped
- relevance to the modern day MeToo movement
- didn't include comedic characters like Froth
- Wilson Knight
- 'the Duke is a Christ-like figure'
- Shakespeare's intentions were to achieve justice
- 2019 Barbican Production
- set at the turn of the century 1900s
- Angelo self-harmed
- Showed his inner-turmoil
- Some characters were gender swapped
- Guardian Review on the Barbican
- they emphasised that the Duke was gay
- Ben Johnson
- criticises that the Bourgeoisie are the loveable characters as they more advantage in life
- The characters who we ridicule are lower class
- Eg. Lucio (middle class) ridicules Mistress overdone and Kate Keepdown
- 'The prostitutes, the most exploited group in the society which the play represents, are absent from it........they have no voice, no presence
- Jonathan Dollimore
- The characters who we ridicule are lower class
- criticises that the Bourgeoisie are the loveable characters as they more advantage in life
- Marxist Perspective
- Shakespeare portrays his characters in classes the same as real life
- Ben Johnson
- criticises that the Bourgeoisie are the loveable characters as they more advantage in life
- The characters who we ridicule are lower class
- Eg. Lucio (middle class) ridicules Mistress overdone and Kate Keepdown
- 'The prostitutes, the most exploited group in the society which the play represents, are absent from it........they have no voice, no presence
- Jonathan Dollimore
- The characters who we ridicule are lower class
- criticises that the Bourgeoisie are the loveable characters as they more advantage in life
- M Gaber
- 'James I came to be associated withe the idea of power in absence'
- Linking the Duke to James I
- 'James I came to be associated withe the idea of power in absence'
- 'Mariana' by Alfred Tennyson
- 'I'm a weary, a weary, I would that I were dead.'
- Emma Smith
- 'it could be argued that none of the social and sexual dysfunction that prompted the Duke to abdicate have been resolved'
- New Testament
- 'with the measure you use, it will be measured to you' - Matthew 7:2
- Arguably this is supposedly Angelo's perspective as he claims to want to be served the same lawful justice he serves
- Howeevr he is a hypocrite as he condemns Claudio for outer-marital relations, something he had done with Mariana (though he thought she was Isabella)
- God's judgement is the only true judgement
- Arguably this is supposedly Angelo's perspective as he claims to want to be served the same lawful justice he serves
- 'with the measure you use, it will be measured to you' - Matthew 7:2
- Old testament
- 'an eye for an eye'
- revengeful, harsh, binary view (black and white)
- What Angelo follows
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- 'We are left hungry and thirsty for some wholesome single grain of righteousness'
- Josephine Waters Bennett
- 'Isabella's flaws arise from her inexperience'
- Terrell Tebbetts
- 'The play is based on James but intended to be a sly, subversive attack on the monarch'
- As James like Anglo was an unexpected monarch
- 'The play is based on James but intended to be a sly, subversive attack on the monarch'
- 'Claudio and Isabella' painting by William Hunt 1850
- The moment in Act 3 Scene 1 between the siblings after Claudio questions his death for a momentary mistake
- Isabella has her hands on her heart - emploring him to open up
- Shows her love for him, despite her unwilligness to lose her virginity
- Claudio is slightly turned away from her - shows his disgust for her
- Andrew Sanders
- ‘Isabella’s passionate and articulate defence of the concept of mercy is Shakespeare’s most probing statement about the difficulty and consequences of judgement'
- Measure for Measure offers a series of juxtapositions rather than coalescences.’
- Feminist Perspective
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