Measure For Measure

When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his fiancee, Julietta, pregnant, a series of ethical issues is brought under scrutiny. His sister's virtue is held to ransom by the deputy ruler of the city until justice is done, mercy shown, and order restored.

Clowns and magistrates, nuns and prostitutes, saints and sinners-all > take the stage in Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's provocative > meditation on justice, law, and mercy. This modernized text, newly > edited from the First Folio (1623), provides a complete record of > textual notes and ample commentary. Concise and helpful appendices > discuss language and rhetoric, sources and adaptations, the play in > performance, and characters; they include a fully annotated > bibliography of print and Internet sources. An accompanying website > off ers additional resources: www.loyola.edu/measure. Through "Aperio > Series: Loyola Humane Texts," Loyola College in Maryland publishes > important and illuminating Humanities texts that have been edited, > annotated, and/or translated by the College's students in > collaboration with faculty. Students work with faculty to design and > publish the texts. The texts are intended for all readers but should > be of particular interest and use to college students and classes. > Contributors: Jedidiah D. Adams, Sarah P. Biernacki, Hannah W. > Blauvelt, Amanda H. Cammarata, Alison J. Koentje, Brian J. Olszak, > Daniel J. Procaccini, Paul J. Zajac. Edited by Robert S. Miola >