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A Feminist Perspective on Measure for Measure “Measure for Measure,” is a play about a woman on her knees. It is quite bothersome that her status in the play, socially, morally, and physically, only touches few sympathies. Marcia Reefer would share this bother. In her feminist essay entitled “Instruments of Some More Mightier Member” The Construction of Female Power in Measure for Measure,” she speaks about how Isabella is trapped in a situation, that no …

…she has been put in the situation that Shakespeare has chosen because it causes her to look as if she is deteriorating. If we read between the lines we can really understand her, and come to grips with the fact that she is making the men, and not the women look powerless and weak. Works Cited Anne Barton. Introduction to Measure for Measure in the Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G. BlakernoreEvans. Boston:Houghton Miffin, 1974 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**