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…
Thanks Stefano - yes, good points. I always think there's a sickness about the Duke - the BBC Shakespeare version of the play (which I mention) is one of my favourites, and shows him as a voyeur. He might actually be as twisted as Angelo.
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…
Thanks Stefano - yes, good points. I always think there's a sickness about the Duke - the BBC Shakespeare version of the play (which I mention) is one of my favourites, and shows him as a voyeur. He might actually be as twisted as Angelo.
I do remember the sentence “some by vice may rise, some by virtue fall”—thought that was very pertinent to our world today.