When sex is banned outside marriage
A SHAKESPEAREAN play is headed for Clwyd Theatr Cymru!
Measure For Measure, one of the greatest combinations of high drama and high comedy that the stage has to offer, weighs personal morality against the rule of law.
Measure For Measure is a play about what it is to be just and what it is to forgive and topically, it also examines questions of how private behaviour should be controlled by the state.
Vienna has become dissolute and the Duke hands power to his younger brother Angelo to restore order.
He sets out to control the brothels by reinstating an ancient law which bans sex outside marriage.
When Claudio's fiancé Juliet becomes pregnant he is sentenced to death.
His sister Isabella, about to take her final vows to become a nun, pleads with the Lord Angelo for her brother's life.
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Last Updated:
09 April 2008 4:25 PM
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