Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604 and first performed in 1604. It was published in the First Folio of 1623.
John Philip Kemble as Vincentio in the 1794 rendition of Measure for Measure
Claudio and Isabella (1850) by William Holman Hunt
Mariana (1851) by John Everett Millais
Pompey Bum, as he was portrayed by nineteenth-century actor John Liston
Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio, published in 1623, about seven y
Measure for Measure
…Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604 and first performed in 1604. It was published in the First Folio of 1623. The play centres on the despotic and puritan Angelo, a deputy entrusted to rule the city of Vienna in the absence of Duke Vincentio, who instead…
Title page of the first impression (1623)
Memorial to William Shakespeare in the Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
Table of Contents from the First Folio
Memorial to John Heminges and Henry Condell, editors of the First Folio, at Bassishaw, London