SHAKSPER 2000: Re: Double Time in MforM

From: Hardy M. Cook (editor@ws.bowiestate.edu)
Date: 03/01/00


The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0419  Wednesday, 1 March 2000.

From:           David M Richman <dmr@cisunix.unh.edu>
Date:           Monday, 28 Feb 2000 10:42:12 -0500 (EST)
Subject: 11.0401 Double Time in MforM
Comment:        Re: SHK 11.0401 Double Time in MforM

Again, I wouldn't be two exacting regarding questions of time.
Presumably, Claudio gets a stay in exchange for Isabella's second
interview.  Isabella's naiveté regarding sexual matters may be
sufficient explanation for her not knowing that Cousin Juliet is about
to give birth-though her baby, unlike Perdita, is not born in prison
during the action.  As to comedy and marriage, Dana is, I think, right
on all counts.  The ending, with its open-ended silences, is
deliberately and deliciously problematic.  David Richman



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