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4 Mar 2026 Conversations with Tyler Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English
“Going into a corrupt nunnery, submitting to Angelo, possibly dying, or marrying the Duke. Shakespeare’s saying that this is the best we can hope for her.”
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- 4 Mar 2026
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…At least she gets to be wife of the Duke, which on a personal side, may not be wonderful, but in the standards-of-living side is as well as she’s going to do. That’s what I mean. Going into a corrupt nunnery, submitting to Angelo, possibly dying, or marrying the Duke. Shakespeare’s saying that this is the best we can hope for her. That may not be what we want, and we may rail against it, but that’s not a bad ending. It looks like an unhappy ending, but it’s not a bad ending. Now, it’s sometimes suggested that Measure for Measure is a play that shows Shakespeare actually was a Catholic, or he wrote it with Catholic themes in mind. What’s your view on that?…
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