Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

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Biography

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604 and first performed in 1604. It was published in the First Folio of 1623.

"He was ever precise in promise-keeping."

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"I hold you as a thing ensky’d and sainted."

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"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

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"Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?"

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"The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept."

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"Falling in the flaws of her own youth."

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"The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good."

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"There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana."

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"Every true man’s apparel fits your thief."

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"What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine."

Measure for Measure