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Measure for measure
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Clowns and magistrates, nuns and prostitutes, saints and sinners-all > take the stage in Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's provocative > meditation on justice, law, and mercy. This modernized text, newly > edited from the First Folio (1623), provides a complete record of > textual notes and ample commentary. Concise and helpful appendices > discuss language and rhetoric, sources and adaptations, the play in > performance, and characters; they include a fully annotated > bibliography of print and Internet sources. An accompanying website > off ers additional resources: www.loyola.edu/measure. Through "Aperio > Series: Loyola Humane Texts," Loyola College in Maryland publishes > important and illuminating Humanities texts that have been edited, > annotated, and/or translated by the College's students in > collaboration with faculty. Students work with faculty to design and > publish the texts. The texts are intended for all readers but should > be of particular interest and use to college students and classes. > Contributors: Jedidiah D. Adams, Sarah P. Biernacki, Hannah W. > Blauvelt, Amanda H. Cammarata, Alison J. Koentje, Brian J. Olszak, > Daniel J. Procaccini, Paul J. Zajac. Edited by Robert S. Miola >

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MEASURE FOR MEASURE
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
SCENE: Vienna
ACT I. SCENE I. The DUKE'S palace
SCENE II. A street
SCENE III. A monastery
SCENE IV. A nunnery
ACT II. Scene I. A hall in ANGELO'S house
SCENE II. Another room in ANGELO'S house
SCENE III. A prison
SCENE IV. ANGELO'S house
ACT III. SCENE I. The prison
Scene II. The street before the prison
Act IV. Scene I. The moated grange at Saint Duke's
SCENE II. The prison
SCENE III. The prison
SCENE IV. ANGELO'S house
SCENE V. Fields without the town
SCENE VI. A street near the city gate
ACT V. SCENE I. The city gate

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