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Sir William Davenant [1673], NA (Printed for T. N. for Henry Herringman [etc.], London) [word count] [S40200]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
Note return to page 1 Davenant's version of MEASURE FOR MEASURE, performed in early 1662 to considerable acclaim but laid aside thereafter, was the first of the Restoration's thoroughgoing adaptations of Shakespeare. Fashionably cast in part into rhyming couplets, it draws a deliberate implicit parallel between Angelo's puritanical regime and that experienced by England during the 1640s and 1650s, adding comedy to its allegory of the Restoration by transplanting Beatrice and Benedick (who is made Claudio's brother) from MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
Sir William Davenant [1673], NA (Printed for T. N. for Henry Herringman [etc.], London) [word count] [S40200]. |
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