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Yet Lucio continues to object. He does not want to marry the whore. It is worse than whipping and hanging. The Duke’s reply is revealing: ‘slandering a prince deserves it’. In other words, Lucio’s slanders are not in fact forgiven: his marriage to the whore is his punishment. Lucio had struck the Duke on his most delicate point, his self-image.
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Wharton, T.F. (1989). The Duke’s Self-Image. In: Measure for Measure. The Critics Debate. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20069-6_14
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