SOURCE: "'Fond Fathers' and Sweet Sisters: Alternative Sexualities in Measure for Measure" in Essays in Literature, Vol. XVI, No. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. 13-31.
In the essay below, Carlson contends that Measure for Measure presents a "fragile and unusual" alternative sexuality in which relationships for both men and women that are not endorsed "by the standard sexual politics" are acknowledged. However, Carlson explains, the effort to create such a sexuality challenges the male order of the play and is terminated in the play 's final scene.
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