Measure problem play

Question 1

Bloom

Answer 1

‘I do not know any other work of that is nearly as nihilistic as Measure for Measure, a comedy that destroys comedy.

Question 2

Mcburney

Answer 2

the only way to approach measure for measure is to come without wanting answers’

Question 3

Reynolds

Answer 3

the play seizes to be a problem play/ emerges as a sophisticated analysis of how people secure and maintain power’

Question 4

Fs Boas

Answer 4

‘the issues raised preclude a completely satisfactory outcome’- suggestion that Shakespeare’s mind was darkened by morbid, cynical and unhealthy feelings

Question 5

Dollimore

Answer 5

‘Shakespeare, piling outrage upon outrage, leaves us morally breathless…rather as if he would end comedy itself, thrusting it beyond all possible limits’

Question 6

Gibbins

Answer 6

Shakespeare’s obsessive about double-meaning,” - directs the Young Vic production – ‘That’s what makes it challenging to direct.”