Publisher's Synopsis
Measure for Measure comic overtones to serious moral inquiry and a peerless black comedy of justice, pride and desire. 'Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall' In the Duke Vincentia's absence from Vienna, his strict deputy Angelo revives an ancient law forbidding sex outside marriage. The young Claudio, whose fiancée Juliet is pregnant, is condemned to death by the law. His sister Isabella, soon to become a nun, pleads with Lord Angelo for her brother's life. But her purity so excites Angelo that he offers her a monstrous bargain - he will save Claudio if Isabella will visit him that night.
