“How to Read and Understand Shakespeare” S:1 E:20 Measure for Measure-Is This Comedy?

S:1 E:20 Measure for Measure-Is This Comedy? With Measure for Measure, you enter the world of Shakespeare’s “problem plays”–dramas that seem neither truly comic nor tragic. Here, observe how Shakespeare creates Vienna, the play’s setting, as a place of hypocrisy, deception, and trickery, where nothing is what it seems and all the tenets of comedy are subverted.