A duke steps aside and his puritanical deputy condemns a man to death for fornication, then propositions the man's chaste sister.
Books that mention Measure for Measure (10)
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein: “When she will play with reason and discourse, And well she can persuade. --SHAKESPEARE, _Measure for Measure_.”
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: “That's out of 'Measure for Measure,'" said she, slyly.”
Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: “…absolutely barred, the only result would be that Antony and Cleopatra, Othello (because of the Bianca episode), Troilus and Cressida, Henry IV, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, La Dame aux Camellias, The Profligate, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith, The Gay Lord…”
The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green: “Nay, but hear me." Measure for Measure.”
Guy Mannering by Walter Scott: “Unfit to live or die--O marble heart! After him, fellows, drag him to the block. Measure for Measure”
Ulysses by James Joyce: “in Hamlet, in Measure for Measure and in all the other plays”
My Life by Richard Wagner: “I had mastered the subject of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “there is a deeper Shakespeareanism in seeing the state's money as being incest; Measure for Measure is close by.”
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver: “At age fifteen I was allowed to go on a trip with the high school English classes to see a performance of Measure for Measure … It was my first experience of Shakespeare”
The Monk by Matthew Lewis: “----Lord Angelo is precise; Stands at a guard with envy; Scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone. Measure for Measure.”