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Wikidata facts
- Author
- William Shakespeare
- Country of origin
- England
- Image
- William Hunt Claudio and Isabella Shakespeare Measure for Measure.jpg
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- Commons category
- Measure for Measure
- inception
- 1604-00-00
- publication date
- 1623-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- Measure for Measure
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- play
- work available at URL
- www.projekt-gutenberg.org/shakespr/mass1/mass1.html
- time period
- Renaissance
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
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Encyclopedic overview
John Philip Kemble as Vincentio in the 1794 rendition of Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604 and first performed in 1604. It was published in the First Folio of 1623.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Measure for Measure” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.