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Thank you Annette for another brilliant article on a Shakespeare’s masterpiece.

Personally, here I saw the human blindness in lack of discrimination/wisdom.

Also, found interesting that power is portrayed as a complete illusion here—the duke gives up his duties (albeit not entirely) and remains in a kind of limbo. Angelo thinks he’s powerful but he is a slave of his own twisted desires.

To me the title seems almost ironic on how the lack of an inner “measure” takes away freedom here.

I wonder whether this was disliked by some critics because they did not like to hear this…

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