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"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...

"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...

William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditio...

"The best of Philadelphia and the world" could be the subtitle for this year's Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe, which pairs local talent with acts from seven countries on four continents.The 11th annual festival, running Aug. 31 through Sept. 15, will stay true to...

Somehow, a connection sparks. Before you know it, you're girlfriends. That is, as much as you can be in a few hours with one of Hollywood's most promising actresses on her week off from shooting a movie with Denzel Washington.As you head together to Agua,...

In the following essay, Cohen contends that Measure for Measure begins as a romantic comedy and ends as a monarch play. The critic maintains that these two incompatible genres result in the play's “notorious contradictions, incongruities, and frustrated expectations.”

In the following essay, McGuire describes the way five late-twentieth-century productions of Measure for Measure depicted the muteness of Angelo, Barnardine, Claudio, Juliet, Mariana, and Isabella in the play's final scene. By means of nonverbal gestures, blocking, and shifting the sequence of lines, McGuire observes, the directors of these productions explored the many possible interpretations and implications of these characters' silences.

Carolyn E. Brown, University of San Francisco Shakespeare's Measure for Measure has been a source of critical contention for centuries. Rosalind Miles, for example, claims that the play "holds today an unassailable position as chief 'problem'" among Shakespeare's plays that have been labeled as such.¹ David Lloyd Stevenson argues that part of the complexity and the discomfort of the play derives from Shakespeare's "forcing us to adjust to a ...

Explore the presentation of Angelo in the William Shakespeare play, Measure for Measure. Reveals how Shakespeare shapes our changing responses to the character throughout the play.

An essay on the importance of religion in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure."

Essay discusses Shakespeare's iinterpretation of women in "Measure for Measure."