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Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

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This text of Measure for Measure is from Volume I of the nine-volume 1863 Cambridge edition of Shakespeare. The Preface (e-text 23041) and the other plays from this volume are each available as separate e-texts.

General Notes are in their original location at the end of the play, followed by the text-critical notes originally printed at the bottom of each page. All notes are hyperlinked in both directions. In dialogue, a link from a speaker’s name generally means that the note applies to an entire line or group of lines.

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THE WORKS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

EDITED BY

WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.

FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;

and JOHN GLOVER, M.A.

LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

VOLUME I.

Cambridge and London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1863.

Dramatis Personæ Act I Scene 1 An apartment in the Duke’s palace. Scene 2 A street. Scene 3 A monastery. Scene 4 A nunnery. Act II Scene 1 A hall in Angelo’s house. Scene 2 Another room in the same. Scene 3 A room in a prison. Scene 4 A room in Angelo’s house. Act III Scene 1 A room in the prison. Scene 2 The street before the prison. Act IV

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Scene 1 The moated grange at St Luke’s. Scene 2 A room in the prison. Scene 3 Another room in the same. Scene 4 A room in Angelo’s house. Scene 5 Fields without the town. Scene 6 Street near the city-gate. Act V Scene 1 The city-gate.
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