The Duke in Measure for Measure: an exploration of authority and power.
Medium
Periodical Article
Medium
- part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Apr2020 (Volume) 88
Classif
820 EMA
Subject
English literature and language
Page
30 - 33
Authors
Smithers, Philip
Contents
The author charts twentieth- and twenty-first-century interpretations of the Duke, beginning with 'old' historicist readings of him as a benevolent ruler, as well as more sceptical readings of him as a representive of an authoritarian state trying to contain and manage subversion.
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