Abstract: Measure for Measure has an exceptionally vexing critical history. It has disturbed or antagonized critics from the time of Dr Johnson, and almost every aspect of it is a subject of controversy in modern criticism. It has had adherents, but the usual reaction has been ambivalent, if not unfavorable, and the consensus of its most recent critics is that it must be judged at least a partial failure. The following verdict, by Harriett Hawkins, is typical of what is rapidly becoming the modern orthodoxy:
Publication Year: 1975
Publication Date: 1975-11-20
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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