Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare · c. 1604 CE · Play · English · Renaissance

A Viennese duke leaves the city to a deputy who revives a dead letter law and condemns a man for getting his fiancée pregnant. The condemned man's sister, a novice about to take vows, comes to plead for him, and the deputy names his price. Mercy and measure weighed to the ounce.

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takes its title from ↑ The Gospels
Christian scripture · c. 70 CE · Scripture
↓ Othello
William Shakespeare · c. 1604 CE · Play — parallels this
↓ All's Well That Ends Well
William Shakespeare · c. 1605 CE · Play — parallels this
↓ Resurrection (Machado de Assis)
Machado de Assis · 1872 CE · Novel — alludes to this
↓ Gerontion
T. S. Eliot · 1920 CE · Poem — alludes to this

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