• DOI:10.1086/rd.21.41917259
Corpus ID: 193052097

Slander for Slander in "Measure for Measure"

@article{Kaplan1990SlanderFS,
  title={Slander for Slander in "Measure for Measure"},
  author={M. L. Kaplan},
  journal={Renaissance Drama},
  year={1990},
  volume={21},
  pages={23 - 54}
}

• M. L. Kaplan
• Published 1990
• Art
• Renaissance Drama

modity scheme. The defendants were found guilty and sentenced to be imprisoned, fined twenty pounds, and whipped four times around the city. They were also to be placed in the pillory with papers attached which literally wrote the crime on the perpetrators so their disgrace could be read by all. To this humiliating and harsh punishment William Burghley suggested an explicitly theatrical addition: "The Lord Treasurer 'would haue those y1 make the playes to make a Comedie hereof, & to acte it wth… Expand

View on U of Chicago

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed