Measure for Measure November 14, 2010

The Duke of Vienna, realizing that through his neglect society has become a rotted den of iniquity, transfers his authority to Angelo - by all accounts an unblemished, morally uncompromising servant of God. But an irresistible sexual attraction to Isabel, a novice nun seeking pardon for her condemned brother, transforms saint into beast in Shakespeare's timeless case study in lethal hypocrisy.