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It is only in the present cenfury that Measure for Measure has been favoured. The history of critical reaction to Measure for Measure is one of sustained distaste and, not infrequently, hostility. For John Dryden, the play was ‘meanly written’ and another seventeenth-century commentator complained that the language was sometimes ‘rough and obsolete’ and that Shakespeare was too rambling and repetitive.
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Lilly, M. (1986). Critical Reception. In: Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08720-4_7
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