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Measure for Measure
The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection (Related to this series)
- Author
- William Shakespeare
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Arkangel
- Publish Date
- 1 February 2006
- Run Time
- 2 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Telling his followers he is leaving the city on affairs of state, the Duke of Vienna appoints the puritanical Angelo to govern in his absence. Will Angelo prove as virtuous as he seems once power is in his hands?
Roaming the city disguised as a friar, the duke looks on as Angelo’s lust for the virtuous Isabella sweeps him into the corruption he has so sternly condemned in others.
The duke’s manipulation at last produces a happy ending for this dark comedy, with its brilliant exploration of the themes of justice and mercy.
Roger Allam plays the duke and Simon Russell Beale is Angelo. Isabella is played by Stella Gonet.
Critics Review
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“I do not know any other eminent work of Western literature that is nearly as nihilistic as Measure for Measure, a comedy that destroys comedy.”
Harold Bloom, world-renowned literary critic
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“It brings before us a group of persons, attractive, full of desire…Behind this group of people, behind their various action, Shakespeare inspires in us the sense of a strong tyranny of nature and circumstance.”
Walter Pater, essayist, art critic, and fiction writer
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Details
- Author
- William Shakespeare
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 2 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 February 2006
- ISBN
- 9781572708921
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Arkangel
- Genre
- Classic and pre-20th century plays, Theatre studies, Plays, playscripts
Synopsis
Telling his followers he is leaving the city on affairs of state, the Duke of Vienna appoints the puritanical Angelo to govern in his absence. Will Angelo prove as virtuous as he seems once power is in his hands? Roaming the city disguised as a friar, the duke looks on as Angelo’s lust for the virtuous Isabella sweeps him into the corruption he has so sternly condemned in others. The duke’s manipulation at last produces a happy ending for this dark comedy, with its brilliant exploration of the themes of justice and mercy.Roger Allam plays the duke and Simon Russell Beale is Angelo. Isabella is played by Stella Gonet.
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