Measure for Measure Flashcards

critics - general (25 cards)

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Julliet stevenson

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‘the language in this scene (act2.2) is erotic. Isabelle and Angelo have been copulating across the verse ever since they met’

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A.W.Schlegel

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‘The true significance of the whole is the triumph of mercy over strict justice’

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Walter Patter

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‘The play deals with mere human nature and brings before us a group of persons attractive full of desire vessels of the seed-bearing powers of nature … a gaudy existence’

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John Saunders

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‘Measure for Measure is a play of extremes’

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Kenneth Muir

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‘The Duke appears to have a supreme indifference to human feelings, like a scientist performing a controlled experiment on human nature’

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Jonathon Dollimore

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‘Through the transgressors in Measure for Measure, the spectre of unregulated desire legitimates an exercise in authoritarian repression

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Richard Wilson and Jonathon Goldberg

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‘The Dukes aim is not to teach people a moral lesson, but to re-legitimate his rule’

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Paul Hollindale

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‘Moral certainty seems everywhere to be accompanied by human inadequacy’

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Cedric Watts

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‘The Duke may be Benevolent, but his tone often lacks considerate sensitivity’

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G Wilson Knight

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‘The Duke is a prophet of an enlightened ethic … which is really the gospel ethic’

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Richard David

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‘There is a danger that to a modern audience, Isabelle may appear unbearably self-centered and priggish’

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Richard Wilson

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‘the duke is a Machiavellian power monger who moves unseen and all seeing among his people in order to better dominate them’

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Declan Donellan

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‘We hate eachother because we hate ourselves’

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Samuel Johnson

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‘Every reader feels some indignation when he finds Angelo spared’

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Hazlitt

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The Duke is ‘more absorbed in his own plots and gravity than anxious for the welfare of the state’

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Diana Devlin

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‘Isabelle’s brave challenge to authority is immediately followed by a sexual approach from the authority’

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Harold Bloom

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‘Everyone is in an abyss of inwardness’

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Coleridge

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‘A hateful work’

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Paul Cheetham

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‘The Duke seems to take on more and more the role of agent provocateur’

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Sandra Clarke

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‘Isabella allows herself to be used as a commodity by the Duke’

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Brian Gibbons

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‘they live in a gross world of commodified sexuality

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Suzann Mclean

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‘you could conclude that her character is better suited to the contemplative world of the nunnery than to the fluctuating influence of the city outside’

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Paul Hollindale

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terms the play an ‘anti-comedy’

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Harold Bloom

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‘a comedy that destroys comedy’

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Sandra Clarke
'her protector is now her predator'