Project Gutenberg 2006-04-14 Public domain in the USA. 58 Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 Shakspeare, William Shakspere, William Guizot, François 1787 1874 Guizot, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, M. (François) Guisot, M. (François) Guizot, Monsieur (François) Guizot, François Measure for measure. French Mesure pour mesure Reading ease score: 81.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Paul Murray, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) "Mesure pour mesure" by William Shakespeare is a comedy written in the early 17th century. The play explores themes of justice, morality, and the complex interplay between authority and individual desires, centering on the characters of Claudio, a young nobleman sentenced to death, and his sister Isabella, who seeks to save him from execution. The beginning of the play introduces the audience to the Duke of Vienna, who decides to delegate his power to Angelo while he disguises himself as a common friar. With the Duke absent, Angelo enforces strict laws that have long been dormant, resulting in Claudio's arrest for getting his fiancée, Juliet, pregnant before marriage. Isabella learns of her brother’s dire situation and is determined to plead for his life, only to discover that Angelo demands her virginity in exchange for her brother's release. The opening sets up a complicated web of moral dilemmas and urgent conflicts that promise to unravel in the ensuing acts. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Comedies Siblings -- Drama Chastity -- Drama Vienna (Austria) -- Drama PR Text FR Théâtre Browsing: Literature Browsing: Performing Arts/Film Browsing: Fiction 220624 219108 2024-10-08T06:36:44.043435 2023-09-08T08:31:27.413803 text/html text/html 214386 2006-04-14T15:00:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 74734 2006-04-14T15:00:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 150811 2024-10-08T06:36:51.538377 application/epub+zip 153166 2024-10-08T06:36:47.322405 application/epub+zip 141752 2024-10-08T06:36:46.049400 application/epub+zip 305506 2024-10-08T06:36:54.483362 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 295959 2024-10-08T06:36:50.744393 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 270769 2022-09-08T15:02:06.928596 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 190795 190557 2024-10-08T06:36:43.100403 2023-09-08T08:31:26.705819 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 186853 2006-04-14T15:00:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 70592 2006-04-14T15:00:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 21982 2024-10-08T06:36:54.621343 application/rdf+xml 13555 2024-10-08T06:36:46.609415 image/jpeg 3491 2024-10-08T06:36:46.327385 image/jpeg 148942 2024-10-08T06:36:44.062409 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia