BBC Television Shakespeare - Season 1 Episode 5 Measure For Measure
This drama is classified as a comedy play by William Shakespeare. However it is also referred to as a 'problem play', because it cannot be easily described as either a tragedy or comedy. The story of the plot centres on Angelo who has been empowered by the Duke of Vienna to rule his land, whilst he wanders about disguised as a friar to investigate the moral decay of his dukedom. Resorting to an old law against fornication to enforce his strict standards of morality, Angelo proceeds to condemn fornicators to death. One of these fornicators is Claudio , a young man who has had pre-marital sex with his fiancee. Claudio's sister Isabella pleads for her brother's life. Angelo's lust is aroused and he uses his power to blackmail Isabella into his bed. Fortunately the Duke overhears. Angelo ends up in the bed of Mariana , a woman from his undisclosed past. Claudio is allowed to live happily ever after with his fiancee, and the virtuous Isabella ends up the Duke of Vienna's bride
First Air Date: Dec 03, 1978
Last Air date: Apr 27, 1985
Season: 7 Season
Episode: 68 Episode
Runtime: 150 minutes
IMDb: 5.20/10 by 5.00 users
Popularity: 41.622
Language: English
Episode
Romeo and Juliet
King Richard the Second
As You Like It
Julius Caesar
Measure For Measure
King Henry the Eighth
King Henry the Fourth, Part I
King Henry the Fourth, Part II
King Henry the Fifth
Twelfth Night, or, What You Will
The Tempest
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Taming of the Shrew
The Merchant of Venice
All's Well That Ends Well
The Winter's Tale
Timon of Athens
Antony and Cleopatra
Othello
Troilus and Cressida
A Midsummer Night's Dream
King Lear
The Merry Wives of Windsor
King Henry the Sixth, Part I
King Henry the Sixth, Part II
King Henry the Sixth, Part III
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
Cymbeline
Macbeth
The Comedy of Errors
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
The Life and Death of King John
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labour's Lost
Titus Andronicus
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