Welcome to Measure for Measure, a comedy with serious bite to it. So serious that this play is sometimes categorized as a "problem play" rather than a comedy, since it involves someone's execution along the way and since the marriages at the end are not all voluntary events, as you shall see ( Read more... )

I'm totally cheating today. I'm going to give you a full summary of Measure for Measure tomorrow, but today, I give you two scenes involving a novice nun named Isabella (pretty and clever and sister to a man condemned to die) and Angelo - proof that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (as my high school history teacher used to ( Read more... )