- Publisher: Methuen Drama
- Year: 2019
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 152pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 196x129mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781350102057
- Product code: 530178
Measure for Measure
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Josie Rourke, the artistic director the Donmar Warehouse, presents a version of Shakespeare’s ‘unromantic comedy’ with unmodernized text and a 21st century twist on its themes of sex, power and society.
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The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
Vienna is corrupt. The Duke, who has let the city fall to vice, hands control to his Deputy, a hardline, puritan reformer.
The Deputy uses ancient laws to sentence citizens to death for sexual misconduct. But when a religious Novice pleads for clemency, their heady encounter leaves the Deputy guilty of the very crime that the law condemns.
Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse Josie Rourke's adaptation of Measure for Measure imagines the play in its original year of performance, 1604, and also in 2018.
Vienna is corrupt. The Duke, who has let the city fall to vice, hands control to his Deputy, a hardline, puritan reformer.
The Deputy uses ancient laws to sentence citizens to death for sexual misconduct. But when a religious Novice pleads for clemency, their heady encounter leaves the Deputy guilty of the very crime that the law condemns.
Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse Josie Rourke's adaptation of Measure for Measure imagines the play in its original year of performance, 1604, and also in 2018.
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