Measure for Measure | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 37 pages of analysis & critique of Measure for Measure.

Measure for Measure | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 37 pages of analysis & critique of Measure for Measure.
This section contains 9,507 words
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SOURCE: Hawkins, Harriet. “Sex and Sin in Measure for Measure: Some Open Questions.” In Harvester New Critical Introductions to Shakespeare: Measure for Measure, pp. 11-42. Brighton, UK: Harvester Press, 1987.

In the following excerpt, Hawkins examines the problematic relationship between sex, sin, vice, and virtue depicted in Measure for Measure.

You are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct posing of a question. Only the second is obligatory for an artist. Not a single problem is solved in Anna Karenina and Eugène Onegin, but you find these works quite satisfactory … because all the questions in them are correctly posed. … The court is obliged to pose the questions correctly, but it's up to the jurors to answer them, each juror according to his own taste.

(Anton Chekhov)

Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel. 

(Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy)

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