Language: English
Published in: 1604
Word count: 22,899 words (≈ about 2 hours)
Source: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
Copyright: Public Domain
Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was originally classified as a comedy, but is now also classified as one of Shakespeare's problem plays.
The play deals with the issues of mercy, justice, truth and their relationship to pride and humility: "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall"
This list is based on The Great Books of the Western World, edited by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler.From Wikipedia:It came about as the result...
"Comedy" in its Elizabethan usage had a very different meaning from modern comedy. A Shakespearean comedy is one that has a happy ending, usually involving...
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