The play with the nun, the maybe monk whos really the duke, and the dirty judge I was looking for yesterday in Banksy or the Wimp: Shakespeare Edition (wp.me/P1kDns-FK) was Measure for Measure. Its a play about the abuse of power. And while here a judge is the one who tries use his position to fulfill a desire, we dont need to go this far. We all hold positions of powers in regards to others and should never stop to ask ourselves how and why we use or abuse them. A duke pretends to leave his town. In disguise as a friar he stays to spy on the pretentious judge he left in charge. The judge promptly sentences a man to death for fornication who merely missed to observe all technicalities of marriage. When the sister of the convict, a novice nun the judge fancies, pleads for mercy for her brother, the judge offers a deal – mercy for her virginity. She is appalled and refuses, but approached by a friar she takes part in setting up a trap for the judge in order to expose him as the liar he is. When the trap snaps shut the convict is released and the Duke proposes to his sister.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:16:40 +0000
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