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Measure for Measure

A Norton Critical Edition
By William Shakespeare
Series: Norton Critical Editions
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Measure for Measure is a complex Shakespearean play exploring themes of morality, justice, and mercy within the strict confines of Viennese law. The narrative focuses on the Duke's temporary abdication of power and the harsh rulings of his deputy, Angelo, which challenge Victorian notions of virtue and authority.
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This Norton Critical Edition suits scholars, students, and readers interested in a deep, authoritative study of Shakespeare's work, featuring comprehensive critical essays, textual variants, and historical context.

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This Norton Critical Edition looks at the full range of opinion and interpretation of this major play from its origins to the present day, from its “genius” (William Hazlitt) to its being a “hateful work, although Shakespearean throughout” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), and beyond.

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This Norton Critical Edition looks at the full range of opinion and interpretation of this major play from its origins to the present day, from its "genius" (William Hazlitt) to its being a "hateful work, although Shakespearean throughout" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), and beyond.

The Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1623 First Folio text, the only authoritative edition of the play. The editor has modernised spelling but preserves, for the most part, the original lineation and characteristically heavy punctuation. The text of Measure for Measure is accompanied by a full introduction, a note on the text, textual variants, and related illustrations.

Sources considers the probable, primary, and analogous sources Shakespeare drew upon while composing Measure 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 on Measure 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's The 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.

Series: Norton Critical Editions

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393931716

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 November 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Critical edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by Grace Ioppolo

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 266g

Pages: 272

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Arts & Culture Classic Poetry Non-Fiction Series: Norton Critical Editions William Shakespeare

About the Author

Grace Ioppolo is the founder and director of the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project and is Professor of Shakespearean and Early Modern Drama in the Department of English and American Literature at the University of Reading, England. She is the author of Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Heywood: Authorship, Authority, and the Playhouse (2006) and Revising Shakespeare (1991). She has edited Shakespeare’s King Lear for Norton and has published widely on textual transmission, the history of the book and literary and historical manuscripts, most recently as the co-editor of Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing (2007). She is the General Editor of The Collected Works of Thomas Heywood, forthcoming 2012–15.

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