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New York 1980; nel Complete Oxford da Stanley Wells e Gary Taylor, Oxford
1986. Essenziali le due più recenti edizioni curate da Brian Gibbons per il New
Cambridge Shakespeare, Cambridge 1991 e da N.W. Bawcutt per l’Oxford
Shakespeare, Oxford 1991. Altre edizioni: di S. Nagarajan, New York, Signet,

1964; di J.G. Saunders per la University of London Press, London 1971; di G.
Ioppolo, London/New York, Prentice Hall-Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996.
Interessante l’edizione di Ernst Leisi, «Measure for Measure»: An Old-Spelling
and Old-Meaning Edition, Heidelberg 1964.

STUDI

Importanti le introduzioni ai testi su elencati, in particolare quelle al New
Arden, New Cambridge e Oxford Shakespeare.
Essenziale la consultazione delle opere sui “problem plays”, che includono
parti o capitoli su Measure for Measure: in particolare W.W. Lawrence,
Shakespeare’s Problem Comedies, New York 1931 (ed. riv. Harmondsworth,

1969); E.M.W. Tillyard, Shakespeare’s Problem Plays, London 1950; Peter
Ure, William Shakespeare: The Problem Plays, ivi 1961; R. Ornstein (a cura
di ) , Discussions of Shakespeare’s Problem Comedies, Boston 1961; E.

Schanzer, The Problem Plays of Shakespeare, London 1963; T. Hawkes,
Shakespeare and the Reason: A Study of the Tragedies and the Problem
Plays, ivi 1964; W.B. Toole, Shakespeare’s Problem Plays: Studies in Form
and Meaning, The Hague 1966; R.A. Foakes, Shakespeare: The Dark
Comedies to the Last Plays; from Satire to Celebration, Charlottesville, VA,

1971; R.P. Wheeler, Shakespeare’s Development and the Problem Comedies:
Turn and Counter-Turn , Berkeley, CA, 1981; K. Muir e S. Wells (a cura di),
Aspects of Shakespeare’s Problem Plays: Articles Reprinted from

Shakespeare’s Survey, Cambridge 1982; N. Frye, The Myth of Deliverance:
Reflections on Shakespeare’s Problem Comedies, Brighton 1983; V. Thomas,
The Moral Universe of Shakespeare’s Problem Plays, Totowa, NJ, 1987; E.A.J.
Honigmann, Myriad-minded Shakespeare: Essays, Chiefly on the Tragedies
and Problem Comedies, New York 1989; R. Hillman, William Shakespeare:

The Problem Plays, ivi 1993; Ph.C. McGuire, Shakespeare: The Jacobean
Plays, ivi 1994.
Sull’opera: R.W. Chambers, The Jacobean Shakespeare and «Measure for

Measure», London 1937 (British Academy Lecture; e in Man’s Unconquerable
Mind, ivi 1939); M. Lascelles, Shakespeare’s «Measure for Measure», ivi 1953;
J.W. Bennett, «Measure for Measure» as Royal Entertainment, New York
1966; D.L. Stevenson, The Achievement of Shakespeare’s «Measure for