Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Packard, Bethany

Titel

Measure for Measure (Bethany Packard)

Ist Teil von

• Shakespeare bulletin, 2014-03, Vol.32 (1), p.139

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's May 2013 Measure for Measure, directed by Producing Artistic Director Brian Isaac Phillips, opened with an extra-textual scene in Mistress Overdone's "house of resort" (cf. 1.2.82). The jazz soundtrack and the flapper dresses and finger waves of Mistress Overdone's clientele established a Roaring Twenties, Prohibition-era setting, but the rollicking atmosphere of the show's first few moments was soon overturned by the court characters. Yet this malleable set and the insertion of court characters into the seamier side of Vienna did not integrate the play's disparate worlds, linking or strongly paralleling the concerns of speakeasy and governing bureaucracy. The loss of an accessory so integral to Angelo's rigid identity indicated his embrace of hypocrisy and abuse of power.