Rethinking Transgression with Shakespeare’s Bawds

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Abstract

Passing through the city prison in Measure for Measure, the disguised Duke Vincentio encounters a new inmate. Maintaining the guise of a friar, the Duke criticizes the prisoner for his reprehensible livelihood: "The evil that thou causest to be done, That is thy means to live. Do thou but think What ‘tis to cram a maw or clothe a back, From such a filthy vice."

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPalgrave Shakespeare Studies
EditorsRory Loughnane, Edel Semple
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages194-208
Number of pages15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

Publication series

NamePalgrave Shakespeare Studies
ISSN (Print)2731-3204
ISSN (Electronic)2731-3212

Keywords

  • Formative Transgression
  • Moral Absolute
  • Romance Convention
  • Social Crisis
  • Verbal Exuberance

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