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Shakespeare with Stephen Ramsay
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- ENGL230A
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- University Of Nebraska - Lincoln
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14 February 2023Measure For Measure
❖ Sex and religion working together to cause trouble
❖ Sermon on the mount
➢ Judge not lest you be judged
➢ Not severe enough, the world is becoming more urban
➢ Religious warfare/underground churches
➢ Illegal bibles
➢ With trials
■ Religious terrorism
❖ The flexibility of law and mercy
➢ Measure for Measure is Shakespeare’s problem play according to scholars
■ Written around the same time as Hamlet and Othello
21 February 2023
MIDTERM - March 9th
Get a “green booklet” for midterm from the bookstore
❖ Passages from plays
➢ Who’s speaking
➢ What is the significance
Measure for Measure
❖ Act II Scene II
➢ Isabella is trying to plea for her brother's life
➢ Duke feels that the laws have become too relaxed
■ Start turning into a law & order kind of guy
➢ Angelo is a big stickler about rules… so is Isabella
■ Angelo is also falling for Isabella
● Odd that love is gradual in this play
■ Big soliloquy (end of 2.2) “Frome thee, even thy virtue”
■ Musing over her purity
❖ Act 3.1 Isabella reports to Claudio about her attempts to save him
➢ Basically tells him to prepare for his death
➢ Line 107… that wouldn't be the worst thing
■ Claudio is extremely dramatic, death really sucks…
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