Measure for Measure has provoked widely different responses from generations of critics. Using the characters of Isabella and the Duke the play portrays in the most vivid terms the responsibilities of temporal and spiritual power - all set amidst the potential ironies of a society that has lost its moral bearings. Understood recently as a Problem Play in its refusal to offer clear moral guidelines, its action derives from various sources and motives, not the least of which is an unsparing anatomy of Jacobean England.
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Measure for Measure has provoked widely different responses from generations of critics. Using the characters of Isabella and the Duke the play portrays in the most vivid terms the responsibilities of temporal and spiritual power - all set amidst the potential ironies of a society that has lost its moral bearings. Understood recently as a Problem Play in its refusal to offer clear moral guidelines, its action derives from various sources and motives, not the least of which is an unsparing anatomy of Jacobean England.
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