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In this critical evaluation of the classic, the discussion focuses on the nature of the major characters, the morality of their behavior, the conclusion of the play, and the genre of a play that was listed in the First Folio as a comedy. The contents of this volume cover texts by English, American and European scholars and critics including Malone, Stevens, Schlegel, Hazlitt, Coleridge, Hallam, Gervinus, Bagehot, Pater, Dowden, Furnivall, Swinburne, Symons, Boas, Shaw, Bradley, Chambers, Bridges, Masefield and Croce.

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For those working on Shakespeare in the nineteenth century, this collection will be an important resource. The play posed questions with which these critics were warily reluctant to engage, and the tactics they deployed to domesticate the drama are very revealing. Via misconceived idealism, sentimentality, and their yearning for it to be something other than what it was, Measure for Measure had in effect turned into Mariana. New Studies in the Shakespearian Heroine

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George L. Geckle is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

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