Measure for MEasure

Question 1

Jonathon Dollimore (cultural materialism)

Answer 1

Angelo’s transgression is ‘displaced’ onto lower class

Question 2

Kathleen McLuskie

Answer 2

‘moral absolutes are rendered platitudinous by the language and verse’

Question 3

J W Lever

Answer 3

First half of MFM is ‘dramatic poetry’, 2nd half ‘stiff’ and ‘uninspired’

Question 4

Coleridge

Answer 4

‘the most painful’ of Shakespeare’s dramas is MFM

Question 5

Elizabeth Pope

Answer 5

Audience would have been just as content to see Angelo, Bernadine and Lucio punished

Question 6

H R Cousins

Answer 6

MfM is ‘melodrama’ as it raises problems without solving them

Question 7

William Perkins

Answer 7

1604 A Treastise on Christian Equity and Modernation
‘as mercy without Justice is foolish pity, so Jusitce without mercy is mere cruelty’
[example of adoption of classical writings into Christian teaching, humanism]

Question 8

How many virtues did Aristotle identify?

Answer 8

12 - only one of which is Justice, and all 12 required to be a good person

Question 9

What legal measures did Aristotle value?

Answer 9

‘proportion’ and ‘intermediate action’ = almost distinguished between general jsuice and particular justice, making a universal law impossible