Critics have often invoked the category of surveillance to account for Duke Vincentio’s temporary retreat from power in Measure for Measure. Yet surveillance is profoundly different from espionage, and this ruler’s behaviour in fact pertains to the latter category – which, incidentally, turns him into a downright villain.

Dark Corners and Double Bodies: Espionage as Transgression in Measure for Measure

FOLENA, Lucia
2015-01-01

Abstract

Critics have often invoked the category of surveillance to account for Duke Vincentio’s temporary retreat from power in Measure for Measure. Yet surveillance is profoundly different from espionage, and this ruler’s behaviour in fact pertains to the latter category – which, incidentally, turns him into a downright villain.
2015
Plots and Plotters: Double Agents and Villains in Spy Fictions
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978-88-6977-031-9
Shakespeare espionage surveillance Machiavellianism transgression
Folena, Lucia
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