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Includes bibliographical references and index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web CONTENTS; GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1 Correcting Shakespeare's editors, 1783; 2 Isabella 'pious, . . . determined, and eloquent', 1789; 3 Topical allusions in Measure for Measure, 1790; 4 Identifying the main source, explaining the text, 1793; 5 On the play's sources, 1807; 6 'A faulty play, 1807; 7 Character and characterization, 1808; 8 'The triumph of mercy over strict justice', 1815; 9 Measure for Measure in performance, 1816; 10 Isabella, a 'lovely example of female excellence', 1817; 11 'A general system of cross-purposes', 1817; 12 The Family Shakespeare, 1818 13 Character and morality in Measure for Measure, 182214 The play's major source, 1824; 15 A play about mercy, 1826; 16 Isabella compared to Portia, 1832; 17 A 'hateful' and 'painful' play, 1835, 1836; 18 A struggle between drama and philosophy, 1839; 19 An introduction to the play, 1840; 20 On the play's date and sources, 1842; 21 Striking passages in a play that gives little pleasure, 1845; 22 An expression of New Testament morality, 1846; 23 'This remarkable drama', 1847; 24 The betrothal contracts and their significance, 1850 25 Dispraise for Angelo, praise for Isabella, ambivalence about the Duke, 185126 Angelo a natural hypocrite, 1853; 27 Sympathy for Angelo, criticism of Isabella, 1854; 28 An uncongenial play, 1856; 29 On Isabella, the epitome of goodness, and some minor characters, 1863; 30 A play expressing equity, not justice, 1863; 31 'The central expression' of Shakespeare's 'moral judgments', 1874; 32 A dark and bitter play, 1875; 33 Mediation by the monastic life, 1875; 34 The place of Measure for Measure in Shakespeare's canon, 1877; 35 Measure for Measure and Roman Catholicism, 1877 36 On the play's analogues and early performance, 188037 A tragedy, 1880; 38 Measure for Measure as dramatic literature, 1886-1909; 39 A lesson from the Sermon on the Mount, 1889; 40 The 'painfulness' of Measure for Measure, 1889; 41 A 'disconsolate and bitter' play, 1891; 42 A recapitulation of Shakespeare's earlier work, 1894; 43 A problem play, 1896; 44 Measure for Measure and Puritan hypocrisy, 1898; 45 Shakespeare elevated 'a degraded and repellent theme', 1898; 46 A play 'full of prophetic intimations', 1899; 47 A 'painful and repellent' play, 1900 48 Measure for Measure as 'a moral experiment', 190349 Miscellaneous comments, 1904; 50 A critical introduction, 1905; 51 An 'unclassifiable play' with a 'half satirical title', 1905; 52 'The limits of comedy ... sorely strained', 1906; 53 Measure for Measure and 'the philosophy of morals', 1906; 54 On the 'inconsistency in the character of Angelo', 1907; 55 Shakespeare's representation of 'a weak world', 1907; 56 A play dramatizing 'the central truth of Christian morality', 1907; 57 A play better read than acted, 1907; 58 Duke Vincentio as Shakespeare's alter ego, 1909 59 'A dramatised Sermon on the Mount of Genius', 1909 |
