Measure for Measure: A Critical Reader

John Jowett is Emeritus Professor at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.Sarah Olive is Senior Lecturer in the Communication and Culture department, Aston University, UK.

• SERIES INTRODUCTIONNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORSTIMELINEIntroduction JOHN JOWETT1. The Critical Backstory SUZANNE GOSSETT2. On Stage: Isabella’s ‘prone and speechless dialect’ in Performance ELIZABETH SCHAFER3. On Screen: ‘Who will believe thee?’ (2.4.154): Measure for Measure and the Problem of Verisimilitude on Screen SARAH HATCHUEL and NATHALIE VIENNE-GUERRIN4. The State of the Art CARLA DELLA GATTA5. New Directions: Theatres of Reputation in Measure for Measure LAURA KOLB6. New Directions: ‘False prints’: Thinking through Metaphors of Counterfeit Impression in Measure for Measure HARRY NEWMAN7. New Directions: ‘There is pretty orders beginning, I can tell you’: Jacobean Plague-time Policies and Politics in Measure for Measure LORNA GILTROW-SHAW8. New Directions: The Government of Self and Others: Ministerial Power and Hypocrisy in Measure for Measure ALEXANDER THOM9. Resources for Teaching and Studying Measure for Measure SARAH OLIVENOTESWORKS CITEDINDEX