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Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare. It is a comedy. Shakespeare's source may be George Whetstone's Promos and Cassandra. Measure for Measure may have been first acted on 24 December 1606. It was probably first printed in the First Folio of 1623.

Images for kids

  • William Hunt Claudio and Isabella Shakespeare Measure for Measure

    Claudio and Isabella (1850) by William Holman Hunt

  • John Liston as Pompey in Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

    Pompey Bum, as he was portrayed by nineteenth-century actor John Liston

  • Prinsep - Mariana

    Mariana (1888) by Valentine Cameron Prinsep

  • Isabella appealing to Angelo (Hamilton, 1793)

    A 1793 painting by William Hamilton of Isabella appealing to Angelo

  • W.E.F. Britten - The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Mariana

    1899 illustration by W. E. F. Britten for Tennyson's "Mariana"


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