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Troilus and Cressida - All's Well That Ends Well - Measure for Measure

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Measure for Measure

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Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe

Measure for Measure - Maß für Maß.

Deutsche Prosafassung und Anmerkungen von Walter Naef, Einleitung und Kommentar von Peter Halter.
Stauffenburg Verlag

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on-line editions / translations / sources / productions, performances / film versions / adaptations in literature / adaptations in music / paintings / criticism / in the classroom / deutsche Webseiten / just for fun

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on-line editions

Folio and early editions:

Folio (1623) [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/index.html#toc3] (09/05/00)

Folio (1623), University of Virginia [http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/]

Folio (1623) (Gutenberg Project) [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2238 (Nov. 2001)]

Measure for Measure-page: the play, annotations, movie clips, reviews, resources. links etc. [http://www.holycross.edu/departments/theatre/projects/isp/measure/mainmenu.html]

Promptbooks of the 17th Century ed. G. Blakemore-Evans. [http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/promptbook/] (25/04/01)

modern editions:

Early 20th Century editions (Craig, Collins, World Library etc; mostly Gutenberg Project): [http://readroom.ipl.org/cgi/i/ipl/ipl.books-idx.pl?type=deweystem&q1=8223]

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translations

Maaß für Maaß; oder: Wie einer misst, so wird ihm wieder gemessen. Deutsche Übersetzung von Ch. M. Wieland [http://projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/mass/mass.htm] (May 2002)

Leer om leer
Dutch translation. by Jan Jonk. [http://www.janjonk.nl/] (March 2002)

Misura per misura / Measure for Measure. Italian Translation. (PDF) [http://infoservice.dnsq.org/sh-commedie.html]

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sources

Augustinus (Saint Augustine of Hippo)
De Sermone Domini in Monte Secundum Matthaeum, (Latin and English) [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/textstrans.html] (15/06/00)

Cinthio, Giraldi.
Hecatommithi (111,7) - a source for Othello, 1583, translated by J. E. Taylor 1855 http://www.classical.net:80/music/comp.lst/works/verdi/otello/otstory.html

Roberts, Caroline . U. of Toronto. The Politics of Persuasion: Measure for Measure and Cinthio's Hecatommithi. MLS, 2002 [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/07-3toc.htm] (Febr. 2002)


not available:
G. B. Cinthio Epitia (1583);
George Whetstone, Promos and Cassandra, 1578; Heptameron of Civil Discourses
T. Lupton, The Second part ... of the Boke entituled Too Good to be true, 1581
Barnaby Riche, The Adventures of Brusanus, Prince of Hungaria, 1592


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productions, performances

Rocklin, Edward L.
Measured Endings: How Productions from 1720 to 1929 Close Shakespeare's Open Silences in Measure for Measure

Marowitz, Charles.
The Measure Log. (2000 Production at Tygres Heart Shakespeare in Portland) [http://www.shakespeare-bulletin.org/issues/fall00/article-marowitz.html]

Boyd, Michael.
RSC Stratford 1998 / Barbican 1999 reviews

Monty Python's Flying Circus,
Series 2. "The First Underwater Production of Measure for Measure" [http://www.mwscomp.com/mpfc/mpfc.html#series2]

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film versions

Internet Movie Database: Shakespeare [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William]
Shakespeare on Television: a bibliography of criticism [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]

Measure for Measure (TV, 1994) dir. David Thacker [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110483]

Measure for Measure (UK; BBC, 1979) dir. Desmond Davis [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0077920]

Zweierlei Mass (Germany, 1963) TV, dir. Paul Verhoeven [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0057722]

Dente per dente (Italy, 1942) dir. Marco Elter [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0034642]

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adaptations in literature

Titles from Measure for Measure [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/m4m.html]

Brecht: Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe (Drama)

Davenant, William. The Law Against Lovers. 1673. (also Much Ado About Nothing)

Gildon, Charles. Measure for Measure. (play) 1700.

Kelley, Carla. Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career (adaptations in popular novels and romances, commented by Osborne, Laurie,
Romancing the Bard: [http://www.colby.edu/personal/l/leosborn/POPSHAK/]

Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare:
Measure for Measure [http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/lambtales/LTM4M.HTM] (May 2002)
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales, ill. by Arthur Rackham [http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/cml/tfs.html] (May 2002)
Lamb, Charles and Mary,
Tales, ill. by Gertrude Hammond (1878) [http://www.bartleby.com/1012/]
Marowitz, Charles. Measure for Measure. (play) 1975.
Monty Python's Flying Circus, Series 2. "The First Underwater Production of Measure for Measure"

Nesbit, Edith.
Beautiful Tales from Shakespeare

Tennyson, Alfred.
Mariana. [http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/tennyson/marianaov.html] (May 2002)

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adaptations in music

Richard Wagner,
Das Liebesverbot (libretto, deutsch) 1836 [http://opera.stanford.edu/opera/Wagner/Liebesverbot/libretto.html]; performance history [http://opera.stanford.edu/opera/Wagner/Liebesverbot/history.html]
Wagner page [http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/phy11733/wagner/index.html]


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paintings, illustrations

Shakespeare illustrated [http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/MMPaintings.html]

Olga's Gallery. World Literature in painting. [http://www.abcgallery.com/liter/shakespeare.html] (Jan. 2002)

Hunt, William Holman.
Claudio and Isabella. (1849) [http://www.abcgallery.com/H/huntwh/huntwh2.html]

Rossetti, Dante Gabriele.
Mariana 1849. [http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rossetti/rossetti36.html]

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criticism

Bennett, Robert.
"Redemption and Damnation: Measure for Measure and Othello As Contrasting Paired Visions" SRASP (1996) http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1996.html

Colvin, Daniel.
Introduction to Measure for Measure.

Friedman, Michael D.
" 'Wishing a More Strict Restraint': Feminist Performance and the Silence of Isabella" SRASP (1996) http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1996.html

Friedman, Michael D. "
O, let him marry her!": Matrimony and Recompense in Measure for Measure (A version of this essay appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly 46 (Winter, 1995), 454-464.)

Holloway, Brian.
Vincentio's Fraud: Boundary and Chaos, Abstinence and Orgy in Measure for Measure (SRASP, 1998, vol 21) [http://www.marshall.edu/engsr//SR1998.html#Vincentio's Fraud:]

Kay, Denis.
Measure for Measure. [http://svpa-server.perform.utas.edu.au/resources/unit_resource/drama2/shakes28.html]

Leavis, F.R. on Shelley (Cenci) and Shakespeare (Measure f. M.) [http://www.wmich.edu/english/tchg/440/cenci.html]

Mazer, Cary M.
Desperate Measures: Politics and the Process of Performance (Measure for Measure) [http://www.holycross.edu/departments/theatre/projects/isp/measure/essays/]

McCandless, David "
I'll Pray to Increase Your Bondage": Power and Punishment in Measure for Measure [http://www.holycross.edu/departments/theatre/projects/isp/measure/essays/l]

Moulton: From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols. (London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 507-09. [http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-measure.html]

Ranasinghe, Nalin
All's Well That Ends Swell? (Measure for Measure)

Roberts, Caroline . U. of Toronto. The Politics of Persuasion: Measure for Measure and Cinthio's Hecatommithi. MLS, 2002 [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/07-3toc.htm] (Febr. 2002)

Rocklin, Edward L.
Measured Endings: How Productions from 1720 to 1929 Close Shakespeare's Open Silences in Measure for Measure


Wall, Clare Marie.
Measuring Isabella From Within

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in the classroom

see also on this site: Education - Shakespeare in the classroom

Cummings, Michael.
The Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to Shakespeare. [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top] (Jan. 2002) Measure for Mesure [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xMeasurefor.html#Measure%20for%20Measure] (Sept. 05)

Marx, Steven.
Triangulating Shakespeare: teaching and lecture notes, course outlines, articles, links, suggestions, film critiques [http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Shakespeare/triang/Comedies/comedies.html]

Massi, JM.
study questions. [http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/wssq/measure.html] (25/04/01)

Measure for Measure-page: the play, annotations, movie clips, reviews, resources. links etc. [http://www.holycross.edu/departments/theatre/projects/isp/measure/mainmenu.html] (Sept. 05)

Shakespeare for teachers and students [http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm] with lesson plans (Jan. 2002) Try web archive:
[http://web.archive.org/web/20030207162957/http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm]


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deutsche Webseiten

Rod Andriz. Mass für Mass - Hintergründe und Informationen. [http://www.freunde.imperium.de/andriz/shakespeare/fo_mass.htm]

Gröchel, André. Das kleine Shakespeare-Brevier: Mass für Mass Inhalt, Wurzeln, Quellen.
[Falls dieser Link nicht klappt: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/mass.htm]

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just for fun

When your baby is pleading for pleasure
Let her sample your "Measure For Measure!"

("BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE" from Kiss me, Kate, music: Cole Porter; lyrics: Sam and Bella Spewack)

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