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한국셰익스피어학회 Shakespeare Review Shakespeare Review Vol.40 No.4
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2004.12
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729 - 761 (33page)

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Measure for Measure, the so-called "disguised ruler play", deals with the problem of the political authority of how to rule his people, focusing on the ruling method of the absolute monarch. With it, this play prepares the English society for accommodation to James' new ruling style, the form of exercising his authority, and his ruling method as well in the political situation at this transitional moment.
The citizens of Vienna are put under the experimental rules of extremely opposing methods-the Duke's generous rule and his substitute Angelo's rigid one. Like King James, the Duke's generous rule resulted in a social milieu in which the traditional regulations seem to be broken down and thus produced the anxiety that the social order and authority are fallen apart and therefore, can be subverted. However, Duke's substitute Angelo's extremely stem and rigid enforcement of the law and abuse of power inevitably creates the situation that requires Duke's rule. To the above mentioned anxiety that the generous monarch might incur, the Duke who regained his position displays that he himself is the ideal ruler by dialogically synthesizing the legal justice and Christian mercy. Eventually, this play provides the pardon and marriages as the results of both mercy and punishment through the ritual of public shame over which the duke presides, clearly opposed to the politics of romantic comedies that conclude with fictitious happy ending.
The more important theme of the political experiment of this play is concerned about how to embody his authority in himself as a monarch who possesses the absolute power, "like power divine." The Duke's purpose was to achieve the omnipotent knowledge and to exercise complete control over his people by demonstrating his ability to look into the secret inwardness of his people. In order to achieve his purpose, the Duke ensures the superiority of his sight by dramatically displaying himself as a source of power or disguising himself. In disguising as a friar he can peer into or eavesdrop subjects' inner world and the center of power from both inside and outside of his dukedom. These attempts of the Duke, as I mentioned in the beginning of this paper, was caused by the epistemological anxiety and pessimism on the disparity and unaccessibility of individual's inner self in the early modern England. This kind of pessimism, however, led the monarchs into a strong desire for consolidating reliable methods to overcome various kinds of impediments and inspired them to imitate the divine omnipotence, rather than dispirit them. The Duke expected to construct the metaphysical ground as the anointed or the earthly god in himself through the above mentioned strategies.
Nevertheless, the Duke's strategies themselves reveal his limitations as an absolute monarch and lead the people to question his power. Furthermore, not only Lucio's uncontained voice and his potential slander, but also Isabella's silence to the Duke's repeated proposal demonstrate that the Duke's absolute power is not complete itself but still requires to be complemented and correction, which directs the audience's eyes to King James.

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