Description
Product ID: | 9780141396552 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Measure for Measure |
Authors: | Author: William Shakespeare |
Page Count: | 224 |
Subjects: | Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare plays |
Description: | Select Guide Rating In the Duke Vincentio's absence from Vienna, his strict deputy Angelo revives an ancient law forbidding sex outside marriage. The young Claudio, whose fiancee Juliet is pregnant, is condemned to death by the law. His sister Isabella, soon to become a nun, pleads with Lord Angelo for her brother's life. ''Language is his power. His characters are precisely the words they speak'' A. S. Byatt |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-07-30 |