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| What Animal does the Duke compare his citizens to? | "We have strict statutes and most biting laws./The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds,/Which for this nineteen years we have let slip;" - The Duke compares his unruly citizens who's defiance has given rise to fornication and prostitution to to headstrong horses. |
| What contextual quote utilises similar imagery? | "Give a wild horse the liberty of the head never so little and he will run headlong to thine and his own destruction also. [...] So correct Children in their tender years." English Puritan Phillip Stubbes 'The Anatomy of Abuses' (1587), why you should punish children. |
| When and why does Angelo describe himself as a horse? | "I have begun / And now I give my sensual race the rein" (2.4.24). In other words, Angelo sees his pursuit of Isabella as a "sensual race" and says he can't control himself, which is why he gives in to unbridled desire. |
| When does the idea of a wild horse come up again in Measure for Measure? | There's a similar metaphor at work in The Taming of the Shrew, where Petruchio's "taming" of "wild Kate" is often compared to a horse being broken in. |
| What does Angelo describe illegitimate children to? | "Stamps" - counterfeit coins. |
| Why does he describe them as this? | Children were often described as being stamped or impressed by their fathers' images, much like metal coins were imprinted by images before being put into circulation + Sexual reproduction and coin fraud were both capital crimes in Shakespeare's UK. |
| What is strange about this? | Angelo is frequently likened to coins (his name even, is associated with "angel" or "nobel-angel", a type of gold coin bearing the image of St. Michael. |
| When does Angelo liken himself to a coin? | When the Duke announces that Angelo will be his deputy, Angelo likens himself to a metal coin that should be tested for its value and worth: "Now, good my lord, /Let there be some more test made of my metal,/ Before so noble and so great a figure / Be stamp'd upon it. (1.1.2)" |
| Whats is he referencing when he talks about testing his metal? | In the sixteenth century, a coin's value was based upon the value of the metal from which it was made. |
| Who else likens Angelo to a coin? | Escalus: "I am sorry, one so learned and so wise/As you, Lord Angelo, have still appear'd,/Should slip so grossly, both in the heat of blood./And lack of temper'd judgment afterward. (5.1.14)" |
| What is the reference? | A 'slip' is a counterfeit coin, and also means to make a mistake. |
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