Measure for Measure Author:William Shakespeare Robert H Cahpan wires in her comments on directing a production of the play: "Meausre for Measure is the presentation of certain paradoxes in action. It may be true that Lucio is a bluntly truthful man, but ... he is a viscious slanderer and a betrayer of faith, too. It can be aregued that Isabella is a demure innocent and saintly girl, but is s... more »he not also selfish, indifferent to another's life so long as her own person remains virginal? The Duke is both weak and strong, hypocritical and honest, depending on one's point of veiw. The real problem in the production is to mantain the balance between the these attitudes so that the questions, the paradoxes, the problems remain to trouble the mind's eye."« less