Guide Note:Measure for Measure is a classic comedy by William Shakespeare.
Fast Facts:
- Written: 1603-1604
- Primary source: Promos and Cassandra - George Whetstone (1578)
- First Folio published 1623
- First performance: December 26, 1604
- Produced on Broadway only once (1973)
- Main Characters:
- Isabella
- The Duke
- Claudio
- Angelo
- Famous Quotes:
- Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
- Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
- Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
- The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.
- O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!