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All's Well that's not Well, or Measure beyond Measure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John P. Cutts
John P. Cutts*
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
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It is not ordinarily wise to draw readers’ attention to further developments of Shakespearean themes unless such developments may be said in some sense to throw interesting light on Shakespeare's particular treatment, or because the developments have worth-while intrinsic merits which may owe their very origin to the vogue sustained if not actually created by him. I should like to bring a thematic development before readers so that they may judge for themselves whether or no it fulfills either or both conditions as well as contributing to the variety of the analogues of the ‘bed-trick’ which has already been pointed out by scholars not necessarily claiming a possible source for Shakespeare but indicating the prevalence of such story material.

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Research Article
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Renaissance News , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Spring 1959 , pp. 12 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1959

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References

1 Cf. Crawford, J. P. W., ‘A Sixteenth-Century Spanish Analogue of Measure for Measure', MLN (June 1920), xxxv, 330–334 Google Scholar; Powell, C. L. and Harding, D., ‘Elizabethan betrothals and Measure for Measure’ ,JEGP (April 1950), XIIX, 139–158.Google Scholar

2 Norman Ault was, I believe, the first to draw attention to this manuscript, from which he published transcriptions of three of the pastoral lyrics in Seventeenth Century Lyrics (London, 1950), pp. 494-495.

3 I have transcribed the whole manuscript and am editing it for publication