Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure
Your first 4 to 5 page (1000 to 1,250 words) essay will be an exercise in close reading of an important passage in Measure for Measure which you will then connect to other key passages that amplify and deepen the theme or question you develop. Choose early. You’ll want to take notes for documentation as you reread. Your paper should have an arguable thesis—shoot for a level two or three thesis Be prepared to defend your thesis and show reasonable progress when you confer with me on that date.
Examine the Duke’s speech about the qualities needed in governing well in 1.1 and then assess the problem the Duke is attempting to rectify by leaving the throne to Angelo, going incognito as a friar and then miraculously appearing at the end to reclaim his throne. What points about governance is Shakespeare able to make through this plot? What do you think of the Duke as a ruler? Connect your key insights to at least two other passages in the play