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That Measure for Measure is a comedy? I don't think so.Anyway. Shakespeare used at least two sources when writing M4M, probably more. One I know for certain was Cinthio's "Epitia". The other was an actual incident in Italy some years earlier in which a judge promised the wife of a condemned man that he would show him mercy in exchange for sex...she slept with the judge and he executed her husband anyway. There were probably other literary accounts of this event from which Shakespeare might have drawn material. I'm sorry I don't know any of them...maybe someone else does.
Posted by Lillith on April 15, 1997 at 09:06:45
In Reply to "Was Measure for Measure written at once or modified from a tragedy?" posted by Student Steve on April 14, 1997 at 13:54:26
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