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Measure for Measure

Index Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. [1]

94 relations: Adelaide Neilson, Adelphi Theatre, Adjoa Andoh, Aldous Huxley, Alexander Pushkin, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Andre Braugher, Angelo (Measure for Measure), Anton Lesser, Ape and Essence, Barbara Jefford, Barbican Centre, BBC Radio 3, BBC Television Shakespeare, Bed trick, Bertolt Brecht, Broadway theatre, Charles Gildon, Charles Laughton, Cheek by Jowl, Corin Redgrave, Das Liebesverbot, David Bevington, David Friedman (composer), David Ogden Stiers, Declan Donnellan, Desperate Measures (musical), Dido and Aeneas, Engagement, Eyeless in Gaza (novel), First Folio, Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, Gary Taylor (scholar), George Whetstone, Gervais Rentoul, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Henry Purcell, In the Region of Ice, Jack Landau (director), Jerry Stiller, John Cazale, John Gielgud, John Houseman, John Jowett, John Rich (producer), Joyce Carol Oates, Juliet Aubrey, Kate Nelligan, Kenneth Colley, Kevin Kline, ..., Lauren Willig, Lily Brayton, Lincoln's Inn Fields, LisaGay Hamilton, Mariana (poem), Meryl Streep, Michael Rudman, Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre, Nadine Marshall, New York (magazine), Nick Ormerod, Oscar Asche, Othello, Oxford University Dramatic Society, Patti LuPone, Peter Brook, Peter Kellogg (writer), Phoenix Theatre (New York City), Project Gutenberg, Ralph Crane, Restoration (England), Richard Wagner, Richard Waring, Round Heads and Pointed Heads, Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Sam Waterston, Samuel Pepys, Sermon on the Mount, Shakespeare in the Park (New York City), Shakespearean problem play, The Guardian, The Law Against Lovers, The Old Vic, The Tempest, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Pynchon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Vienna, Vintage Classics, William Davenant, William Poel, William Shakespeare. Expand index (44 more) »

Adelaide Neilson

Lilian Adelaide Neilson (3 March 184715 August 1880), born Elizabeth Ann Brown, was a British stage actress.

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Adelphi Theatre

The Adelphi Theatre is a London West End theatre, located on the Strand in the City of Westminster.

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Adjoa Andoh

Adjoa Andoh (born 14 January 1963) is a British film, television, stage and radio actress.

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family.

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (a) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic eraBasker, Michael.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Andre Braugher

Andre Keith Braugher (born July 1, 1962) is an American actor.

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Angelo (Measure for Measure)

Angelo is a character in Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure.

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Anton Lesser

Anton Lesser (born 14 February 1952) is an English actor.

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Ape and Essence

Ape and Essence (1948) is a novel by Aldous Huxley, published by Chatto & Windus in the UK and Harper & Brothers in the US.

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Barbara Jefford

Mary Barbara Jefford, OBE (born 26 July 1930) is a British Shakespearean actress best known for her theatrical performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Old Vic and the National Theatre, and her role as Molly Bloom in the 1967 film of James Joyce's Ulysses.

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Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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BBC Television Shakespeare

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television.

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Bed trick

The bed trick is a plot device in traditional literature and folklore; it involves a substitution of one partner in the sex act with a third person (in the words of Wendy Doniger, "going to bed with someone whom you mistake for someone else").

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Charles Gildon

Charles Gildon (c. 1665 – 1 January 1724), was an English hack writer who was, by turns, a translator, biographer, essayist, playwright, poet, author of fictional letters, fabulist, short story author, and critic.

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Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor, director, producer and screenwriter.

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Cheek by Jowl

Cheek by Jowl is an international theatre company founded in the United Kingdom by director Declan Donnellan and designer Nick Ormerod in 1981.

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Corin Redgrave

Corin William Redgrave (16 July 19396 April 2010) was an English actor and far-left political activist.

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Das Liebesverbot

(The Ban on Love, WWV 38), is an early comic opera in two acts by Richard Wagner, with the libretto written by the composer after Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.

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David Bevington

David Martin Bevington (born May 13, 1931) is an American literary scholar.

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David Friedman (composer)

David Alan Friedman (born May 16, 1950) is a film and theatre composer, songwriter, author, lyricist and conductor based in New York City.

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David Ogden Stiers

David Allen Ogden Stiers (October 31, 1942March 3, 2018) was an American actor, voice actor, and conductor.

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Declan Donnellan

Declan Michael Martin Donnellan (born 4 August 1953) is an English film/stage director and author.

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Desperate Measures (musical)

Desperate Measures is a two-act musical with music by David Friedman and book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg.

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Dido and Aeneas

Dido and Aeneas (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate.

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Engagement

An engagement, betrothal, or fiancer is a promise to wed, and also the period of time between a marriage proposal and a marriage.

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Eyeless in Gaza (novel)

Eyeless in Gaza is a bestselling novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1936.

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First Folio

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Gaiety Theatre, Manchester

The Gaiety Theatre, Manchester was a theatre in Manchester, England.

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Gary Taylor (scholar)

Gary Taylor (born 1953) is an American academic, George Matthew Edgar Professor of English at Florida State University, author of numerous books and articles, and joint editor of The Oxford Shakespeare and "Oxford Middleton".

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George Whetstone

George Whetstone (1544? – 1587) was an English dramatist and author.

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Gervais Rentoul

Sir Gervais Squire Chittick Rentoul KC (1 August 1884 – 7 March 1946) was a British Conservative politician.

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Giovanni Battista Giraldi

Giovanni Battista Giraldi (12 November 1504 – 30 December 1573) was an Italian novelist and poet.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (or; c. 10 September 1659According to Holman and Thompson (Grove Music Online, see References) there is uncertainty regarding the year and day of birth. No record of baptism has been found. The year 1659 is based on Purcell's memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey and the frontispiece of his Sonnata's of III. Parts (London, 1683). The day 10 September is based on vague inscriptions in the manuscript GB-Cfm 88. It may also be relevant that he was appointed to his first salaried post on 10 September 1677, which would have been his eighteenth birthday. – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.

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In the Region of Ice

In the Region of Ice is a 1976 American short film directed by Peter Werner, based upon the short story of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates.

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Jack Landau (director)

Jack Landau (1924 – 16 March 1967, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American stage and television director.

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Jerry Stiller

Gerald Isaac Stiller (born June 8, 1927) is an American comedian and actor.

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John Cazale

John Holland Cazale (August 12, 1935 – March 12, 1978) was an American actor.

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John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades.

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John Houseman

John Houseman (born Jacques Haussmann; September 22, 1902October 31, 1988) was a British-American actor and producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane and his storied collaboration with writer Raymond Chandler's intoxicated screenplay rendering as producer of The Blue Dahlia. He is perhaps best known for his role as Professor Charles W. Kingsfield in the film The Paper Chase (1973), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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John Jowett

John D. Jowett is an English Shakespeare scholar and editor.

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John Rich (producer)

John Rich (1692–1761) was an important director and theatre manager in 18th-century London.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer.

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Juliet Aubrey

Juliet Aubrey (born 17 December 1966) is an English actress of theatre, film, and television.

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Kate Nelligan

Patricia Colleen Nelligan (born March 16, 1950), known professionally as Kate Nelligan, is a Canadian stage, film and television actress.

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Kenneth Colley

Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is an English actor.

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Kevin Kline

Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor and singer.

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Lauren Willig

Lauren Willig is a New York Times bestselling author of historical novels.

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Lily Brayton

Elizabeth "Lily" Brayton (23 June 1876 – 30 April 1953) was an English actress and singer, known for her performances in Shakespeare plays and for her nearly 2,000 performances in the First World War hit musical Chu Chin Chow.

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Lincoln's Inn Fields

Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London.

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LisaGay Hamilton

LisaGay Hamilton (born March 25, 1964) is an American director, and film, television, and theater actress known for her role as attorney Rebecca Washington on the ABC's legal drama The Practice.

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Mariana (poem)

"Mariana" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in 1830.

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Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress.

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Michael Rudman

Michael Rudman (born 14 February 1939) is an American theatre director.

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Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre

The Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow created in 1950 on the base of Alexander Tairov's Chamber Theatre, which was founded in 1914 and shut down in 1949 for ideological reasons. The theatre is based in the Russian capital's centre, at Tverskoy Boulevard, 23.

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Nadine Marshall

Nadine Panchita Marshall (born 1972) is an English television, stage and radio actress.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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Nick Ormerod

Nicholas Ronald Ormerod OBE (born 9 December 1951) is a British theatre designer and co-founder of the international theatre company Cheek by Jowl.

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Oscar Asche

John Stange(r) Heiss Oscar Asche (26 January 1871 – 23 March 1936), better known as Oscar Asche, was an Australian actor, director and writer, best known for having written, directed, and acted in the record-breaking musical Chu Chin Chow, both on stage and film, and for acting in, directing, or producing many Shakespeare plays and successful musicals.

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Othello

Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603.

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Oxford University Dramatic Society

The Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) is the principal funding body and provider of theatrical services to the many independent student productions put on by students in Oxford, England.

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Patti LuPone

Patti Ann LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is an American actress and singer, best known for her work in stage musicals.

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Peter Brook

Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s.

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Peter Kellogg (writer)

Peter Kellogg is a musical theater book writer and lyricist.

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Phoenix Theatre (New York City)

The Phoenix Theatre was a pioneering off-Broadway theatre in New York City, extant from 1953 to 1982.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".

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Ralph Crane

Ralph Crane (fl. 1615 – 1630) was a professional scrivener or scribe in early seventeenth-century London.

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Restoration (England)

The Restoration of the English monarchy took place in the Stuart period.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas").

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Richard Waring

Richard Waring (born Richard Waring Stephens, 27 May 1911 – 18 January 1993) was an English-born American actor.

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Round Heads and Pointed Heads

Round Heads and Pointed Heads (Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe) is an epic parable play written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Margarete Steffin, Emil Burri, Elisabeth Hauptmann, and the composer Hanns Eisler.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) is one of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House.

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Royal Shakespeare Theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) is a 1,040+ seat thrust stage theatre owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company dedicated to the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.

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Sam Waterston

Samuel Atkinson Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.

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Sermon on the Mount

The Sermon on the Mount (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: Sermo in monte) is a collection of sayings and teachings of Jesus, which emphasizes his moral teaching found in the Gospel of Matthew (chapters 5, 6, and 7).

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Shakespeare in the Park (New York City)

Shakespeare in the Park (or Free Shakespeare in the Park) is a theatrical program that stages productions of Shakespearean plays at the Delacorte Theater, an open-air theater in New York City's Central Park.

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Shakespearean problem play

In Shakespeare studies, the problem plays are three plays that William Shakespeare wrote between the late 1590s and the first years of the seventeenth century: All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Law Against Lovers

The Law Against Lovers was a dramatic adaptation of Shakespeare, arranged by Sir William Davenant and staged by the Duke's Company in 1662.

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The Old Vic

The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre, located just south-east of Waterloo station on the corner of the Cut and Waterloo Road in Lambeth, London, England.

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The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–1611, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone.

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Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelled Midleton) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist.

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Tim Pigott-Smith

Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith, (13 May 1946 – 7 April 2017) was an English film and television actor and author.

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Tom Wilkinson

Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson, OBE (born 5 February 1948)Born January–March 1948, according to the Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.; at ancestry.com is an English actor.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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Vintage Classics

Vintage Classics is a paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction.

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William Davenant

Sir William Davenant (baptised 3 March 1606 – 7 April 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright.

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William Poel

William Poel (1852-1934) was an English actor, theatrical manager and dramatist best known for his presentations of Shakespeare.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_for_Measure

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