Author Description

This volume approaches the play from four declared positions within literary criticism (performance study; new historicist feminism; reader response and Foucaultian). It illustrates how complex critical theories might affect critical practice in detail, and illuminates both Measure for Measure and the theories themselves. The spread of perspectives has been carefully chosen with modern cultural and critical concerns in mind. A select bibliography and essay introductions by the volume editor help those new to theory to assimilate and apply it in reading or seeing the play.