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Professor Alison Shell (UCL): ‘Getting it Wrong in the Counter-Reformation: Religious Orders in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure’
Institute of Historical Research Seminar The tragicomedy Measure for Measure, which dramatizes the consequences of a clampdown on social immorality in Vienna, has long been recognised as indirectly commenting on the puritanism of Shakespeare's era. This paper argues that the play also speaks to Catholicism's internal reforms, especially through Shakespeare's representation of friars and nuns; […]
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