i. pirates rub out "shalt not steal"

ii. soldiers don't mean prayers for peace (39) Lucio "hopes for action" 49 but disappointed

i. Claudio sent to prison--Lucio's true friend

i. Friar assumes its for lecherous purpose--the ends of burning youth 46

ii. He's been too liberal; can't crack down since he feels responsible; worried about slander; Angelo seems appropriate one to impose Restraint since he himself has reputation not of leniency but austerity.

i. tediousness of administering justice--opposing claims--Angelo's impatience, and incompetence as justice--difficulty of finding other justices of peace (60)

ii. Esc. interrogates Pompey, who claims the inescapability of lust and brothels. (59)

i. (Lucio here urging Isabella on from the wings, heckling as in Act V, coaching her to use devious methods of persuasion, which she adopts; very problematic juxtaposition of high theology and base pleading)

ii. asks for mercy, using the example of Jesus; Ang. insists it's the Law

iii. speech on the abuse of power and authority (65-6)

iv. her plea to Angelo to search his heart for the same vice yields truth: Angelo's lust for her (!)

v. she teases him with the mention of bribe--but means only prayers

vi. Angelo's realization: problematic between tempter and tempted--who is guilty?

i. Blood thou art blood; his parts revolt

i. she asks mercy; he refuses on grounds that illegal procreation like counterfeiting, is as bad as murder; creating as bad as destroying life

ii. she disagrees; he offers hypothetical trade: her body for his; she says yes, not understanding

iii. A. offers another reason--sin in body doesn't comporomise soul, but wont hold to it because it undermines his policy

iv. She mistakes his presentation of sinlessness of her sacrifice of her virtue to save her brother; she promises to take his sin on her

v. He is irritated--she's either too innocent or too crafty; distrusts her and her paradoxes--speaks "more gross" (73)

vi. She'd die for brother but not give up her chastity

vii. He points out the contradiction--in pleading she'd devalued seriousness of unchastity; she admits her own inconsistency--O pardon me, my lord..."I something do excuse the thing I hate/For his advantage that I dearly love." (74); He replies: "We are all frail"

viii. She admits women are frail; he says "be frail and give in" She still doesn't understand his meaning

ix. She thinks he's tempting her; he says he means it

x. Now she gets it (149)...and threatens to expose him, at the same time condemning "seeming" and hypocrisy.

xi. No one will believe her; now he has let the stops out--give sensual race the rein...my false o'erweighs your true"; threatens to torture Claudio if she doesn't yield [Rape and blackmail; Nazi behavior, Sophie's choice]

xii. I. has nowhere to turn; values her chastity more than her brother, forgetting the threat of torture, certain he will agree

i. Cl. : the miserable have only hope

ii. Duke: (77) Life is worthless, youth and age an after-dinner sleep; only a dream

iii. Cl. learns acceptance; [ripeness is all]; seeking death, find life (paradox)

i. He insists on his contempt of death (80); she proclaims his honor; he hears a deal is possible; since Angelo is lustful, his cannot be so bad; then becomes desparate for life at any cost; and full of fear of death. She is so disappointed, she curses him out; hopes for his death (82) leaves him pleading

i. tells Claudio, Angelo was only testing, he must prepare for death; Claudio reverses attitude, begs forgiveness of Is. [crucial issue of emotion and information]

ii. Tone seems to shift; Duke proposes bedtrick to Is. Introduces Marianna, deserted by Angelo in before completion of nuptials, because of lost dowry. Prediction of comic outcome. This will save Claudio and Isabella's virtue; relieve her dilemma; she accepts.

i. Provost is gentle and sympathetic, appreciated by Duke (102)

i. Barnardine's a murderer, neither penitent nor in fear of death; always drunk--(relate to Lucio, also Antonio in Tempest); in jail with reprieves brought by friends;

i. Lucio keeps interrupting and Duke interrupts to correct Isabella's speech

i. Lucio denounces the Friar, saying the Friar denounced the Duke [reverse of what Friar did, while L. was denouncing Duke]

ii. Friar Peter attacks Isabella's accusation; defends Friar L. Isabella carried off, not believed

i. reveals Angelo is her husband "Who thinks he knows sthat he ne'er knew my body/But knows he thinks that he knows Isabel's" (124)

ii. Lucio interrupting throughout

i. major issue here seems to be slander

i. Duke/Friar violently denounces Angelo and the Duke; Escalus threatens to torture him (128); Friar says he's "seen corruption boil and bubble till it o'errun the stew. Laws for all faults/ But faults so countenanced..."

i. Angelo confesses and repents; forced to marry Mariana

ii. Duke still tricks Isabel into thinking Claudio is dead; condemns Angelo to death for killing Cl.

iii. Mariana begs for Angelo's life even though married, she could have his goods were he executed; Duke is adament, invoking Measure for Measure (132) Duke refuses absolutely;

iv. Claudio unmasked and pardoned "for your lovely sake" (Isabella) (135)

v. Duke now turns to Lucio, whom he won't pardon; Lucio keeps joking; forced to marry a whore; Duke forgives slanders; Lucio keeps complaining

vi. Duke still trying to get Isabella to consent to marriage, but she says nothing