Word: repartee
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MHS: First of all, in rehearsal you just have to trust that it's a funny play. You just have to take it on faith. This play has been done before and people have liked it, so you know just say the lines...this is where most of the work...
Really a tragicomedy, Measure for Measure was Shakespeare's last comedy before Othello, King Lear and Hamlet. Angelo, deputy to the Duke, sentences Claudio to death for fornication. Claudio's sister, Isabella, goes to Angelo to beg for mercy; he agrees to free her brother only at the exchange of...
The dialogue is quick and witty, ranging from "Okay, wise guy, don't say we didn't warn you," to, "Honey, I've never met any girl like you before." A subtle mind should be able to keep up with this reparte without any trouble.
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