Measure - Plays ending Flashcards
Fs boas
Issues raised preclude satisfactory outcomes
mcburnry
only way to come to measure for measure is without wanting answers
Hazlitt
- “Our sympathies are repulsed and defeated in all directions.
Watson
‘undermines our faith in the comic formula as a whole/ evokes a tragic resistance to comic solutions.”^
Reifer -
‘negative effects of patriarchal attitudes on the resolution of comedy itself.’ / not actress ran out of words but reufsal to say someone elses
Chicago 2013
Where in the final act post proprsal Barnadine stabs isabella
Bloom
by end ‘shakespeare chose not to forgo hidden blaspmey of sermon on the mount. reduced to like for like
Frye
Comedys end on ‘the perception of continuing happiness’
Bradbook
Comic resolution as “ a marriage between Truth [Isabella] and Justice [the Duke].” Allegroy of restorations of new testament’s justice