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A ruler deputizes a strict official to impose moral order, and that official harshly punishes a young man for sexual transgression. The condemned man’s sister, a novice nun, pleads for mercy and faces an exploitative proposition that exposes the deputy’s hypocrisy. The absent ruler, disguised as a friar, engineers a series of substitutions and legal maneuvers that bring secret failings to light and force public reckonings. Bawdy comic episodes run alongside serious trials, and the work interrogates authority, justice, sexual politics, and the uneasy balance between rigorous law and merciful clemency.

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Title: Measure for Measure

Author: William Shakespeare

Release date: November 1, 1998 [eBook #1530]
Most recently updated: September 19, 2025

Language: English

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MEASURE FOR MEASURE

by William Shakespeare