Measure for Measure Critical Interpretations/Quotes

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Glyn Austen
The character and function of the Duke in Measure for Measure
The entire action of the play is in one sense a creation of the Duke: he is a puppeteer whose purpose drives, or at least initiates, events.
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James Middleditch
Angels and Devils
"presents Vienna as a place in which the id has dominated, with no super-ego to control it"

"Angelo's choices; they represent both the pleasures and the dangers of the id"
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Elpeth Carruthers
The tyranny if the law? Angelo in Measure for Measure
"Angelo starts out as the archetype of Puritanism (...) growing divergence between his public and private forces."
"Angelo's decline from his position of moral authority and the tyrannous nature of this authority"
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Richard Lees
Moral degeneracy in Measure for Measure
"the correction of rampant vice and permissive sexuality appears to take two forms: self-regulation and state regulation."
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Nigel Wheale
Shakespeare's dynamics
"announces Claudio's execution (...) a demonstration of the law (...) immediately followed by Escalus's interrogation of Pompey Bum, which proceeds to make a mockery of the law's pretensions"
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"presents Vienna as a place in which the id has dominated, with no super-ego to control it"

"Angelo's choices; they represent both the pleasures and the dangers of the id"

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James Middleditch
Angels and Devils

Card 3

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"Angelo starts out as the archetype of Puritanism (...) growing divergence between his public and private forces."
"Angelo's decline from his position of moral authority and the tyrannous nature of this authority"

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"the correction of rampant vice and permissive sexuality appears to take two forms: self-regulation and state regulation."

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Card 5

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"announces Claudio's execution (...) a demonstration of the law (...) immediately followed by Escalus's interrogation of Pompey Bum, which proceeds to make a mockery of the law's pretensions"

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