Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (1979 TV)-Act II, scene 2

[disasterfrog]

The woman playing Isabella looks like Nicolas Cage.

[amyivisonx]

doing 1500 words on this soliloquy alone is a killer.

[RayoProductions]

@amyivisonx 3000 words on Angelo's monologue alone for me :(

[vcmluvs4estfires28]

mmm...yeah, angelo's totally hot.

he'd probably kill me for saying that...

[Horatio786]

Angelo. Even though I never saw or read this play, I believe that he has what it takes to be one of the Bard's greatest antagonists.

[reshaO1]

can u plzzzzzzzzz upload da rest of it thanx

[2541940a]

Do you have the whole thing of this please??

[blod1tatws]

"She speaks, and 'tis such sense That my sense breeds with it." I'm doing Measure for measure for my A levels, and out of everything in the play, I remember that line. Here's where the audience actually gets to see that Angelo isn't as cold as he seems.

[astromelody]

Oh Lucio. Sounds so much like he says "Moron". Ha.

[tvdd1973]

"Oh it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant."

I genuinely feel pity for people who dismiss Shakespeare as 'boring'. The man's ability with words was utterly astonishing. This scene is beautifully acted.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

As Measure for Measure is a very good romantic-humours play the version of it is as well made; the actress playing Isabel fits the role as it were written for her; the duke is the well-meaning fox and his deputy Angelo a fitting false judge; and the play is performed with zeal, vigour and passion and this is sadly not so with all production made by the insidious British Broadcasting Corporation! Take Twelfth Night for example, which lacks earnest and life which is found here.

[TobiusMcKenzie]

If I was to ever play a role in Measure for Measure, I would DEMAND to be Lucio :D

[ioet]

it was interesting how he gets visibly angry at her when she says "hark how i'll bribe you," i'll always imagined that as him being confused or thinking dirty thoughts!

[TheaterForLife2013]

let's give three cheers for Lucio, the most important character in this scene! Ready? Hip hip - ! x] (also, is it weird that I find this Angelo attractive in a really creepy way?)

[uncatila]

man, proud man dressed in a little brief authority most ignorant of what he is most assured his glassy essence like an angry ape plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as makes the angels weep,

[terrybeaton]

@uncatila Those were always my favorite lines in this play as well. "His glassy essence"! Is that such stuff as dreams are made on?

[TheaterForLife2013]

they did a very good job. I wish I had joined my youth shakespeare company (unabridged, uncut and AWESOME) a year earlier, because they did it a year before I joined, and Measure is my favorite Shakespeare play (maybe my favorite book in general). I joined for Macbeth (not as awesome, but still). Ah well, I'll see if I could get my drama club to do this play.

Also, as much as I love this scene, I love Act II scene 4, it's creepy but wonderfully dramatic

[GreatGrumbledook]

Someone should really tell Shakespeare that Vienna is a German city and therefore the people there are very unlikely to have Italian names; but both the play and this its adaptation are well crafted (though Shakespeare could have elaborated the sly Duke and fair Isabel falling in love and the story of Mariana and of Claudio and his unhappy love to Julietta as well, like he has in Much Ado about Nothing or As you like it); plus I love the scene when Isabel rebukes the earthly power of mankind...

[tvdd1973]

05.23 "It is excellent to have a giant's strength but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant."

If only our political, religious and corporate leaders understood this concept then the world would be a far better place.

[NEU143]

can u upload the whole movie? i cant find it anywhere. pls!!!

[patfealy]

Here the Taliban are moved by Mercies intreat. so let Mercy by more on our lips than Libertine precepts that tempt more reightious men than us to anger we who slumber while new borns are put to sword. will anyone pitty us when

we are judged for our forgetful sloath

[missbabyice]

This is a brilliant scene; one of the most dramatic ones Shakespeare wrote.

[MzsSammyy]

I'm reciting the part where Angelo says from "What's this? What's this... to... ever till now. when men were fond, i smiled & wondered how" tomorrow!

THANKS A MILLION for posting this! i really neded to get the feel of this &+ i had no idea what "fie" meant. hahah

THANKS AGAINN!

[newbeginnings523]

superb

[wsj1887]

Oh! I'm doing the monologue at the end of this scene for the National Shakespeare Competition!

[PiggyofGuinea]

@wsj1887 Which one? ESU in New York?

[superdooperstupor]

I remember seeing the original telecast of this in the United States, and this scene has always stayed with me. The audacity and cruelty of Angelo's telling Isabella to "Be content" with the law that condemns her brother to death is answered with perhaps more memorable lines than in other play. This is a wonderful scene performed with skill, commitment, and passion too seldom seen these days among younger generations of actors.

[colled1609]

GREAT!!! where can i get the rest of the movie?

[metalshakespeare]

A most memorable scene. And well played.

[planetearth42]

and "well said"