Word: repartee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
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