Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR T2 - La clé des langues ID - bbbc1514 T1 - "Amending Mariana" AU - Dobson, Michael PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - Mariana LA - English AB - Analyzes Measure for Measure's Mariana in order to address how her treatment indicates historical misgivings about the action of the play and to discuss how her status as "a convenient and easily-manipulated substitute . . . usefully highlights the ruthless worldly logic of exchange and delegation by which both Measure for Measure and its presiding Duke operate, a logic which may be at variance with the larger moral and spiritual claims by which the rhetoric of both play and central character may wish to launder it." ER -