measure for measure critics quotes

Question 1

J.W. Lever TNTHOFTAMW

Answer 1

The need to hold on firmly to a middle way

Question 2

H.R. Coursen TDIVIIIM

Answer 2

The Duke is vain, interested in image mongering

Question 3

David Lloyd Stevenson

Answer 3

The play was written to flatter James the 1as the Duke is based on many of his attributes

Question 4

James shapiro

Answer 4

The Duke scatters pardons like James at Winchester

Question 5

Carolyn E brown

Answer 5

Shakespeares message is that rulers are not godly agents, but fleshy humans, more in touch with earth than heaven

Question 6

Northrop Frye

Answer 6

Angelo is…the most contemptible kind of hypocrite

Question 7

L.C. Knights

Answer 7

His lust, just like his forced chastity, is felt as something excessive,

Question 8

Dr Johnson

Answer 8

Every reader feels some indignation when angelo is spared

Question 9

Elspeth carruthers

Answer 9

Angelo starts out as an archetype of puritanism

Question 10

Daryl Gless

Answer 10

Isabellas preoccupation with her chastity shows spiritual arrogance

Question 11

Wilbur Dunkel

Answer 11

Isabells agrees to the bed trick “because a holy man advises her to do so”

Question 12

Emma smith

Answer 12

“More than our brother is our chastity” is a formal statement of belief rather than an inner revelation of feeling

Question 13

Penelope Wilton

Answer 13

Her vilification of her brother….shows her as hysteric, as a neurotic and it shows her as a religious maniac

Question 14

Fredrique Fouassier

Answer 14

Although the play looks like a comedy, it is devoid of celebration and its ending resolves none of the tension aroused by the action

Question 15

Lisa Hopkins

Answer 15

Marriage is appropriate as a provider of closure for comedy because it focuses primarily on the experience of the group, as opposed to the individualistic, isolationist emphasis of tragedy

Question 16

Mark Lilly

Answer 16

No other Shakespearean play is so strongly rooted in biblical teaching as measure for measure

Question 17

George Wilson Knight

Answer 17

The dukes sense of human responsibility is delightful throughout: he is like a kindly father, and all the rest are his children

Question 18

Emma Smith 2

Answer 18

Isabella shows she “able to play the grubby game of blackmail with angelo”

Question 19

Emma Smith 3

Answer 19

Life itself seemed a short snd insignificant matter in the light of eternal judgement

Question 20

John A Green

Answer 20

The dukes disguise as a friar is “perhaps an implication that Catholicism us inherently corrupt and is merely a show with no real substance”

Question 21

John A Green 2

Answer 21

The Duke cannot rightly be said to occupy the moral high ground throughout measure for measure