Measure for Measure: Texts and Contexts Book

Pt. 1	William Shakespeare, Measure for measure	17
Pt. 2	Cultural Contexts	115
1	Governance	117
	The King James version of Measure for measure	124
	Divine right of kings and absolutism	127
	Machiavelli	132
	Anxiety	135
	Resistance	142
	Slander	145
	From The true law of the free monarchies	148
	From Basilikon Doron	154
	From The adventures of Brusanus, Prince of Hungary	157
	From The prince	160
	From The first sermon upon the Lord's prayer	166
	From A dialogue concerning the due privilege of government in the Kingdom of Scotland	168
	From The prince, or Maxims of state	170
	From A speech delivered to the king's most excellent majesty, in the name of the sheriffs of London and Middlesex	175
	Epigram 35. to King James	176
	From The phoenix	178
2	Marriage, sex, and society	181
	Marriage a la mode	181
	Understanding Isabella	194
	Chastity and eloquence	200
	Mariana and the play's resolution of women's rights	203
	From The law's resolution of women's rights	205
	From Christian economy	209
	From A treatise of spousals	214
	Of matrimony	216
	A selection of court cases concerned with sex	219
	From A book of Christian prayers	221
	From Instruction of a Christian woman	223
	From The Lord's Sermon on the Mount	226
	From The story of Epitia	228
	From The book of the city of ladies	238
	From The nun's rule	241
	From The life and legend of the Lady Saint Clare	244
3	The underworld	251
	Social and moral geography	256
	Prostitution, pox, and plague	257
	From The survey of London	271
	From Lantern and candlelight	276
	From Epigrams	280
	Proclamation against inmates	280
	From A caveat for common cursitors	282
	From Anatomy of abuses	286
	The fair beggar	294
	From The Dutch courtesan	296
	From Trail of a procurer	300
	From The counter's commonwealth	301
	The prisoners' petition	310
	The song of a constable	312
4	Geography and religion	317
	Puritanism	329
	From the Geneva Bible	333
	From An itinerary	335
	The Catholics' supplication	337
	From An answer unto the Catholics' supplication	341
	From News from Rome, Venice, and Vienna	345
	Letter to the King of Bohemia	350
	Letter from Vienna	352