Measure for Measure Book

	General Editor's Preface
	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Correcting Shakespeare's editors, 1783	31
2	Isabella 'pious, ... determined, and eloquent', 1789	34
3	Topical allusions in Measure for Measure, 1790	36
4	Identifying the main source, explaining the text, 1793	39
5	On the play's sources, 1807	42
6	A faulty play, 1807	45
7	Character and characterization, 1808	47
8	'The triumph of mercy over strict justice', 1815	49
9	Measure for Measure in performance, 1816	51
10	Isabella, a 'lovely example of female excellence', 1817	53
11	'A general system of cross-purposes', 1817	56
12	The Family Shakespeare, 1818	58
13	Character and morality in Measure for Measure, 1822	60
14	The play's major source, 1824	63
15	A play about mercy, 1826	70
16	Isabella compared to Portia, 1832	74
17	A 'hateful' and 'painful' play, 1835, 1836	80
18	A struggle between drama and philosophy, 1839	82
19	An introduction to the play, 1840	84
20	On the play's date and sources, 1842	94
21	Striking passages in a play that gives little pleasure, 1845	96
22	An expression of New Testament morality, 1846	99
23	'This remarkable drama', 1847	106
24	The betrothal contracts and their significance, 1850	113
25	Dispraise for Angelo, praise for Isabella, ambivalence about the Duke, 1851	115
26	Angelo a natural hypocrite, 1853	121
27	Sympathy for Angelo, criticism of Isabella, 1854	123
28	An uncongenial play, 1856	135
29	On Isabella, the epitome of goodness, and some minor characters, 1863	141
30	A play expressing equity, not justice, 1863	152
31	'The central expression' of Shakespeare's 'moral judgments', 1874	161
32	A dark and bitter play, 1875	168
33	Mediation by the monastic life, 1875	172
34	The place of Measure for Measure in Shakespeare's canon, 1877	182
35	Measure for Measure and Roman Catholicism, 1877	186
36	On the play's analogues and early performance, 1880	192
37	A tragedy, 1880	194
38	Measure for Measure as dramatic literature, 1886-1909	196
39	A lesson from the Sermon on the Mount, 1889	199
40	The 'painfulness' of Measure for Measure, 1889	201
41	A 'disconsolate and bitter' play, 1891	205
42	A recapitulation of Shakespeare's earlier work, 1894	215
43	A problem play, 1896	219
44	Measure for Measure and Puritan hypocrisy, 1898	229
45	Shakespeare elevated 'a degraded and repellent theme', 1898	236
46	A play 'full of prophetic intimations', 1899	239
47	A 'painful and repellent' play, 1900	242
48	Measure for Measure as 'a moral experiment', 1903	244
49	Miscellaneous comments, 1904	254
50	A critical introduction, 1905	257
51	An 'unclassifiable play' with a 'half satirical title', 1905	261
52	'The limits of comedy ... sorely strained', 1906	263
53	Measure for Measure and 'the philosophy of morals', 1906	268
54	On the 'inconsistency in the character of Angelo', 1907	271
55	Shakespeare's representation of 'a weak world', 1907	274
56	A play dramatizing 'the central truth of Christian morality', 1907	281
57	A play better read than acted, 1907	286
58	Duke Vincentio as Shakespeare's alter ego, 1909	289
59	'A dramatised Sermon on the Mount of Genius', 1909	295
60	An attack on Puritanism, 1909	300
61	'An early, half finished piece', 1910	309
62	Historical criticism and Measure for Measure, 1910	311
63	'One of the greatest works of the greatest English mind', 1911	313
64	William Poel's Elizabethan' production, 1911	316
65	Characterization, style and structure, 1912	319
66	An 'eminently disagreeable' piece of cynicism, 1913	323
67	A play 'as painful as it is ill-shapen', 1913	332
68	A play 'unfit for the modern Theatre', 1913	336
69	Measure for Measure and 'the ethical spirit of western literature', 1915	338
70	The 'happy ending ... fails to persuade', 1920	340
	Notes	343
	Select Bibliography	363
	Index	373