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Title: Measure for Measure
The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: William George Clark
John Glover

Release Date: December 12, 2007 [EBook #23045]

Language: English

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THE WORKS

of

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Edited by

WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.
Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, and Public Orator
in the University of Cambridge;

and JOHN GLOVER, M.A.
Librarian Of Trinity College, Cambridge.

_VOLUME I._

Cambridge and London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1863.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE[1].

VINCENTIO, the Duke.
ANGELO, Deputy.
ESCALUS, an ancient Lord.
CLAUDIO, a young gentleman.
LUCIO, a fantastic.
Two other gentlemen.
PROVOST.
THOMAS, } two friars.
PETER, }
A Justice[2].
VARRIUS[2].
ELBOW, a simple constable.
FROTH, a foolish gentleman.
POMPEY, servant to Mistress Overdone[3].
ABHORSON, an executioner.
BARNARDINE, a dissolute prisoner.

ISABELLA, sist