Measure for measure /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Athlone Press, 2001. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xxxvi, 382 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Shakespeare, the critical tradition Shakespeare, the critical tradition. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11165161 |
Table of Contents:
- GENERAL EDITOR''S PREFACE; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1 Correcting Shakespeare''s editors, 1783; 2 Isabella ''pious ... determined, and eloquent'', 1789; 3 Topical allusions in Measure for Measure, 1790; 4 Identifying the main source, explaining the text, 1793; 5 On the play''s sources, 1807; 6 ''A faulty play, 1807; 7 Character and characterization, 1808; 8 ''The triumph of mercy over strict justice'', 1815; 9 Measure for Measure in performance, 1816; 10 Isabella, a ''lovely example of female excellence'', 1817; 11 ''A general system of cross-purposes'', 1817.
- 12 The Family Shakespeare, 181813 Character and morality in Measure for Measure, 1822; 14 The play''s major source, 1824; 15 A play about mercy, 1826; 16 Isabella compared to Portia, 1832; 17 A ''hateful'' and ''painful'' play, 1835, 1836; 18 A struggle between drama and philosophy, 1839; 19 An introduction to the play, 1840; 20 On the play''s date and sources, 1842; 21 Striking passages in a play that gives little pleasure, 1845; 22 An expression of New Testament morality, 1846; 23 ''This remarkable drama'', 1847; 24 The betrothal contracts and their significance, 1850.
- 25 Dispraise for Angelo, praise for Isabella, ambivalence about the Duke, 185126 Angelo a natural hypocrite, 1853; 27 Sympathy for Angelo, criticism of Isabella, 1854; 28 An uncongenial play, 1856; 29 On Isabella, the epitome of goodness, and some minor characters, 1863; 30 A play expressing equity, not justice, 1863; 31 ''The central expression'' of Shakespeare''s ''moral judgments'', 1874; 32 A dark and bitter play, 1875; 33 Mediation by the monastic life, 1875; 34 The place of Measure for Measure in Shakespeare''s canon, 1877; 35 Measure for Measure and Roman Catholicism, 1877.
- 36 On the play''s analogues and early performance, 188037 A tragedy, 1880; 38 Measure for Measure as dramatic literature, 1886-1909; 39 A lesson from the Sermon on the Mount, 1889; 40 The ''painfulness'' of Measure for Measure, 1889; 41 A ''disconsolate and bitter'' play, 1891; 42 A recapitulation of Shakespeare''s earlier work, 1894; 43 A problem play, 1896; 44 Measure for Measure and Puritan hypocrisy, 1898; 45 Shakespeare elevated ''a degraded and repellent theme'', 1898; 46 A play ''full of prophetic intimations'', 1899; 47 A ''painful and repellent'' play, 1900.
- 48 Measure for Measure as ''a moral experiment'', 190349 Miscellaneous comments, 1904; 50 A critical introduction, 1905; 51 An ''unclassifiable play'' with a ''half satirical title'', 1905; 52 ''The limits of comedy ... sorely strained'', 1906; 53 Measure for Measure and ''the philosophy of morals'', 1906; 54 On the ''inconsistency in the character of Angelo'', 1907; 55 Shakespeare''s representation of ''a weak world'', 1907; 56 A play dramatizing ''the central truth of Christian morality'', 1907; 57 A play better read than acted, 1907; 58 Duke Vincentio as Shakespeare''s alter ego, 1909.