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ANGELO-learned, philosophical, but repressed-sets out to do the job right and enforce the law with absolute impartiality. Measure for Measure examines how inadequate this machine-like justice is in the face of human ambiguity. Angelo's first victim is to be Claudio, a nobleman arrested for getting his wife-to-be pregnant. When Claudio's almost cloistered sister Isabella pleads for her brother's life before Angelo, she arouses the interest of the judge "who scarce confesses that his blood flows...
...only five goals and winning only two games in the entire tournament. During the enchanted years of the great Pele, Brazil won the World Cup three times-1958, 1962 and 1970-but the marvelous flair for which it was legendary has been dampened by age and a disciplinarian coach, Claudio Coutinho, who admires the rough and rigidly patterned European style of soccer. The samba drums lugged to Argentina by Brazilian true believers never really caught the rhythm, and Pelé himself, at 37 too old to play championship soccer, and too recently the best player in the world to resign...
...runs rampant in Vienna. The Duke of the city pretends to leave, deputizing an icily moral Lord Angelo to govern in his place. The Duke hopes prostitution will be curbed this way. Angelo, true to form, immediately shuts the whorehouses, and condemns a man to death for fornication. But Claudio, the accused, has been living unmarried with his loving, contracted fiance only until her dowry can be arranged. Their union needs no financial guarantee. Measure is not for Measure in Angelo's sentence; the penalty does not fit the crime. Every sexual union is a form of prostitution in this...
...CORE of the play is Angelo's realization of his sexuality. He presents a deal to Claudio's sister, Isabella, a strictly moral novice, who is called from her convent to argue on her brother's behalf. He tells her she can prostitute herself to him in exchange for her brother's life, or she can allow Claudio to die. Isabella never actually chooses between the alternatives. The Duke has been nearby all the while masquerading as a friar. He helps Isabella trick Angelo, furthering his own purpose of determining "if power change purpose...what our seemers...
George Miller, no the other hand, as a friend of Claudio, is funny despite the fact that he's too complex. We keep thinking what's an intelligent person like this doing playing our comic relief...