Measure for Measure

ISBN-13: 9780393931716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str.

William Shakespeare; Grace Ioppolo

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"Sources" considers the probable, primary, and analogous sources Shakespeare drew upon while composingMeasure for Measure, including excerpts from G. B. Giraldi Cinthio's Hecatommithi and The Tragedy of Epitia, King James I's Basilikon Doron, and--most directly--George Whetstone's The History of Promos and Cassandra. "Criticism" collects seventeen important commentaries onMeasure for Measure spanning four centuries, including, among others, those by Alexander Pope, Charlotte Lennox, Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Inchbald, A. C. Bradley, G. Wilson Knight, Jonathan Dollimore, and Marliss C. Desens. "Adaptations and Responses" reprints alternative versions of the play: William D'avenant'sThe Law Against Lovers (1662), Charles Gildon's Measure of Measure, or, Beauty the Best Advocate (1700), and Charles Marowitz's postmodern version (1975). A Selected Bibliography is also included