Measure for Measure facts for kids
Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare. It is a comedy. Shakespeare's source may be George Whetstone's Promos and Cassandra. Measure for Measure may have been first acted on 24 December 1606. It was probably first printed in the First Folio of 1623.
Images for kids
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John Philip Kemble as Vincentio in the 1794 rendition of Measure for Measure
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Claudio and Isabella (1850) by William Holman Hunt
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Mariana (1851) by John Everett Millais
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Pompey Bum, as he was portrayed by nineteenth-century actor John Liston
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"Measure for Measure" Act II, Scene 1, the Examination of Froth and Clown by Escalus and Justice (from the Boydell series), Robert Smirke (n.d.)
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Mariana (1888) by Valentine Cameron Prinsep
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The first page of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, printed in the First Folio of 1623
See also
In Spanish: Medida por medida para niños