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A review by amelianotthepilot
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
slow-paced
1.0
this one sucked and is a bit too relevant
it starts with the government enforcing a new law declaring that if you have a baby out of wedlock you go to jail. Claudio is betrothed to Juliet but they get pregnant before they are married and both are sent to jail. Claudio’s sister, Isabella, is informed of this and leaves her nunnery to go petition the deputy. However the deputy is corrupt and declares that if Isabella wishes to save Claudio she must sleep with him. Isabella refuses and then goes to visit Claudio and tell him about this. Claudio then tells her that she should sleep with the deputy to save him. 🙄
The Duke disguised as a Friar overhears all this and decides to help. He makes a grand scheme and decides a girl named Mariana who likes the deputy should sleep with him and pretend to be Isabella and this will save Claudio 😒
So Mariana sleeps with the deputy but then the deputy decides to kill Claudio anyway and demands his head. The Duke prevents this and decides to send another prisoners head but that prisoner doesn’t want to die so they send a corpse’s head.
They then hold a trial in which the Duke unveils himself and exposes the whole plot. He forces the deputy to marry Mariana and then beheads the deputy for his crimes.
Then in the very last two lines ?i think he makes a move on Isabella??
this play was a mess lol
also there’s a character named elbow
it starts with the government enforcing a new law declaring that if you have a baby out of wedlock you go to jail. Claudio is betrothed to Juliet but they get pregnant before they are married and both are sent to jail. Claudio’s sister, Isabella, is informed of this and leaves her nunnery to go petition the deputy. However the deputy is corrupt and declares that if Isabella wishes to save Claudio she must sleep with him. Isabella refuses and then goes to visit Claudio and tell him about this. Claudio then tells her that she should sleep with the deputy to save him. 🙄
The Duke disguised as a Friar overhears all this and decides to help. He makes a grand scheme and decides a girl named Mariana who likes the deputy should sleep with him and pretend to be Isabella and this will save Claudio 😒
So Mariana sleeps with the deputy but then the deputy decides to kill Claudio anyway and demands his head. The Duke prevents this and decides to send another prisoners head but that prisoner doesn’t want to die so they send a corpse’s head.
They then hold a trial in which the Duke unveils himself and exposes the whole plot. He forces the deputy to marry Mariana and then beheads the deputy for his crimes.
Then in the very last two lines ?i think he makes a move on Isabella??
this play was a mess lol
also there’s a character named elbow