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Measure for Measure

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Pages: 110

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Act One
31:12
Act Two
47:55
Act Three
41:08
Act Four
45:38
Act Five
41:12

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When the Duke of Vienna leaves the city in the hands of his stern deputy Angelo, the puritanical official revives an old law and sentences a young man named Claudio to death for getting his betrothed pregnant. Claudio's sister, a novice nun named Isabella, pleads for mercy, and Angelo counters with a monstrous bargain: her chastity for her brother's life. Meanwhile the Duke, disguised as a friar, watches the crisis unfold and quietly steers it toward a reckoning. One of Shakespeare's so-called problem plays, it wrestles with justice, hypocrisy, and the gap between public virtue and private desire, refusing easy answers even in its uneasy comic ending. This free PDF and EPUB edition makes a sharp, morally complex work easy to explore.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet who lived during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and authored approximately 37 plays and 154 sonnets that explore themes of love, power, ambition, and human nature.