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Measure for Measure
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ISABELLA: "Nay, it is ten times true, for truth is truth to th'end of reck'ning."
DUKE: "Away with her...Poor soul."
US CONGRESSMAN: "Truth isn't truth...but anyone up for a devil's triangle?"
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MY REVIEW: Shakespeare is amazingly prescient (sadly so in this case) and that's one reason we still read him. But this isn't one of his most popular plays, and there is good reason: a violent and unpleasant game of power, sex, and death is played and there are no winners. I'll take the silly farce of "Merry Wives of Windsor" any day over "Measure for Measure."
DUKE: "Away with her...Poor soul."
US CONGRESSMAN: "Truth isn't truth...but anyone up for a devil's triangle?"
***
MY REVIEW: Shakespeare is amazingly prescient (sadly so in this case) and that's one reason we still read him. But this isn't one of his most popular plays, and there is good reason: a violent and unpleasant game of power, sex, and death is played and there are no winners. I'll take the silly farce of "Merry Wives of Windsor" any day over "Measure for Measure."
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Quotes Greg Liked
“It is excellent To have a giant's strength But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant”
― Measure for Measure
― Measure for Measure
“Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
And some condemned for a fault alone.”
― Measure for Measure
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
And some condemned for a fault alone.”
― Measure for Measure
Reading Progress
September 16, 2018
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Started Reading
September 16, 2018
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September 16, 2018
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17.99%
"When Mistress Overdone (who runs a 'bawdy' house) points out that a certain client had promised to marry a certain employee with child, her message couldn't not be more prescient to today's world: some men's attitudes toward women's bodies is shockingly repugnant. We see it daily in government offices in America. Disgusting."
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September 16, 2018
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18.35%
"This one raises all kinds of issues! Get this:
DUKE: I never heard the absent duke much detected for women-he was not inclined that way.
LUCIO: O, sir, you are deceived.
DUKE: 'Tis not possible.
It's the 'tis not possible' declaration that opens the door to all kinds of speculation. I don't think Shakes is going to reveal all: Shakes is just pointing out that no one knows all there is to know about anyone."
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DUKE: I never heard the absent duke much detected for women-he was not inclined that way.
LUCIO: O, sir, you are deceived.
DUKE: 'Tis not possible.
It's the 'tis not possible' declaration that opens the door to all kinds of speculation. I don't think Shakes is going to reveal all: Shakes is just pointing out that no one knows all there is to know about anyone."
September 28, 2018
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Finished Reading
