Measure for Measure Act 3 Analysis | Shakespeare Play by Play Season 1

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Reading Act 3 through the theme of "Intention". This will be a full analysis of every Act of Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure through different themes. Subscribe for future seasons of this Shakespeare Play by Play. Twitter: @Shakespearepbp

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Works Consulted:

Baines, Barbara J. “Assaying the Power of Chastity in Measure for Measure.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 30, no. 2, 1990, p. 283., doi:10.2307/450518.
Bernthal, Craig A. “Staging Justice: James I and the Trial Scenes of Measure for Measure.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 32, no. 2, 1992, p. 247., doi:10.2307/450735.
Bruhn, Karen. “‘If Power Change Purpose’: Authority, Leadership, and Religion in Measure for Measure.” Leadership and Elizabethan Culture, 2013, pp. 213–227., doi:10.1057/9781137340290_13.
Diehl, Huston. “‘Infinite Space’: Representation and Reformation in Measure for Measure.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 4, 1998, p. 393., doi:10.2307/2902235.
Knoppers, Laura Lunger. “(En)Gendering Shame: Measure for Measure and the Spectacles of Power.” English Literary Renaissance, vol. 23, no. 3, 1993, pp. 450–471., doi:10.1111/j.1475-6757.1993.tb01069.x.
Leggatt, Alexander. “Substitution in ‘Measure for Measure.’” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3, 1988, p. 342., doi:10.2307/2870931.
Magedanz, Stacy. “Public Justice and Private Mercy in Measure for Measure.” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, vol. 44, no. 2, 2004, pp. 317–332., doi:10.1353/sel.2004.0018.
Majeske, Andrew. “Equity’s Absence: The Extremity of Claudio’s Prosecution and Barnardine’s Pardon in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.” Law & Literature, vol. 21, no. 2, 2009, pp. 169–184., doi:10.1525/lal.2009.21.2.169.
Riefer, Marcia. “‘Instruments of Some More Mightier Member’: The Constriction of Female Power in Measure for Measure.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, 1984, p. 157., doi:10.2307/2869924.
Shakespeare, William, et al. Measure for Measure. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
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