sovay: (I Claudius)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2011-01-03 07:51 am (UTC)

I've come this far in life without reading a lot of Shakespeare obscuries, and currently that feels like a mistake.

Measure for Measure is rather like a five-act elaboration of "Anathea," with bonus string-pulling Drosselmeyer figure. It is supposedly set in Vienna. Everyone is named things like Angelo, Claudio, Isabella, Vincentio. (There is one character named Lodowick and he's an alias.) It is rightly identified as a problem play; its resolution is very strange and can be spun all sorts of ways by directors with a variety of interpretations. I seem to be fond of it.

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