Excerpt: 3.1from Claudio: Ay, but to die, and go we know not where, / To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; to That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment / Can lay on nature is a paradise / To what we fear of death. (public domain)
This Wide and Universal Theater (book) • p105 • Chapter 5: Like a Strutting Player – Staging Moral Ambiguity in Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida
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Mariana • Tennyson's poem quotes "Mariana in the moated grange" from Measure for Measure as an epigraph.
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