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Measure for Measure: Critical Essay by Barbara J. Baines

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William Shakespeare
About 25 pages (7,476 words)
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SOURCE: Baines, Barbara J. “Assaying the Power of Chastity in Measure for Measure.Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 30, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 283-301.

In the following essay, Baines studies Shakespeare's depiction of Isabella's sexual purity as a means of garnering social power in the world of Measure for Measure.

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