What’s Love Got to Do with It?
What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Sexual Exploitation in Measure for Measure
Chapter 7 addresses one of Shakespeare’s most overtly legal plays: Measure for Measure. There has always been serious disagreement about the motives of the Duke of Vienna, whose odd decisions spur all the action. Foa, a former prosecutor, undertakes to provide a prosecutor’s answer, exploring what evidence there is to argue that the duke’s motivation is corrupt and criminal. Foa shows that the play is at least as much about the corrupting effect of power as the relative virtues or vices of lax or strict enforcement of legal codes prescribing morals and sexual crimes.
Keywords: Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, gender, power, law enforcement, prosecution
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