CONTENTS -- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Correcting Shakespeare's editors, 1783 -- 2 Isabella 'pious, . . . determined, and eloquent', 1789 -- 3 Topical allusions in Measure for Measure, 1790 -- 4 Identifying the main source, explaining the text, 1793 -- 5 On the play's sources, 1807 -- 6 'A faulty play, 1807 -- 7 Character and characterization, 1808 -- 8 'The triumph of mercy over strict justice', 1815 -- 9 Measure for Measure in performance, 1816 -- 10 Isabella, a 'lovely example of female excellence', 1817 -- 11 'A general system of cross-purposes', 1817 -- 12 The Family Shakespeare, 1818 -- 13 Character and morality in Measure for Measure, 1822 -- 14 The play's major source, 1824 -- 15 A play about mercy, 1826 -- 16 Isabella compared to Portia, 1832 -- 17 A 'hateful' and 'painful' play, 1835, 1836 -- 18 A struggle between drama and philosophy, 1839 -- 19 An introduction to the play, 1840 -- 20 On the play's date and sources, 1842 -- 21 Striking passages in a play that gives little pleasure, 1845 -- 22 An expression of New Testament morality, 1846 -- 23 'This remarkable drama', 1847 -- 24 The betrothal contracts and their significance, 1850 -- 25 Dispraise for Angelo, praise for Isabella, ambivalence about the Duke, 1851 -- 26 Angelo a natural hypocrite, 1853 -- 27 Sympathy for Angelo, criticism of Isabella, 1854 -- 28 An uncongenial play, 1856 -- 29 On Isabella, the epitome of goodness, and some minor characters, 1863 -- 30 A play expressing equity, not justice, 1863 -- 31 'The central expression' of Shakespeare's 'moral judgments', 1874 -- 32 A dark and bitter play, 1875 -- 33 Mediation by the monastic life, 1875 -- 34 The place of Measure for Measure in Shakespeare's canon, 1877 -- 35 Measure for Measure and Roman Catholicism, 1877 -- 36 On the play's analogues and early performance, 1880 -- 37 A tragedy, 1880.

38 Measure for Measure as dramatic literature, 1886-1909 -- 39 A lesson from the Sermon on the Mount, 1889 -- 40 The 'painfulness' of Measure for Measure, 1889 -- 41 A 'disconsolate and bitter' play, 1891 -- 42 A recapitulation of Shakespeare's earlier work, 1894 -- 43 A problem play, 1896 -- 44 Measure for Measure and Puritan hypocrisy, 1898 -- 45 Shakespeare elevated 'a degraded and repellent theme', 1898 -- 46 A play 'full of prophetic intimations', 1899 -- 47 A 'painful and repellent' play, 1900 -- 48 Measure for Measure as 'a moral experiment', 1903 -- 49 Miscellaneous comments, 1904 -- 50 A critical introduction, 1905 -- 51 An 'unclassifiable play' with a 'half satirical title', 1905 -- 52 'The limits of comedy ... sorely strained', 1906 -- 53 Measure for Measure and 'the philosophy of morals', 1906 -- 54 On the 'inconsistency in the character of Angelo', 1907 -- 55 Shakespeare's representation of 'a weak world', 1907 -- 56 A play dramatizing 'the central truth of Christian morality', 1907 -- 57 A play better read than acted, 1907 -- 58 Duke Vincentio as Shakespeare's alter ego, 1909 -- 59 'A dramatised Sermon on the Mount of Genius', 1909 -- 60 An attack on Puritanism, 1909 -- 61 'An early, half finished piece', 1910 -- 62 Historical criticism and Measure for Measure, 1910 -- 63 'One of the greatest works of the greatest English mind', 1911 -- 64 William Poel's 'Elizabethan' production, 1911 -- 65 Characterization, style and structure, 1912 -- 66 An 'eminently disagreeable' piece of cynicism, 1913 -- 67 A play 'as painful as it is ill-shapen', 1913 -- 68 A play 'unfit for the modern Theatre', 1913 -- 69 Measure for Measure and 'the ethical spirit of western literature', 1915 -- 70 The 'happy ending . . . fails to persuade', 1920 -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- I: MEASURE FOR MEASURE -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J.

L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- II: SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS (EXCLUDING MEASURE FOR MEASURE) -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- III: GENERAL INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.