Measure for Measure

Mrs. Jogger and I went back up to Spring Green to see another Shakespeare play, Measure for Measure. We've been back in Wisconsin for six years, and never went there once, but now we've gone twice this summer. I guess we were spurred on by the friends who took us to Julius Caesar, although today we went just by ourselves.

It was a terrific production. I wasn't familiar with the story at all, and I was a little afraid that I'd have trouble following it, but there was no trouble at all. It's a very interesting play. The main plot is of a Lord who uses his power to try to get a young lady to go to bed with him. It's disturbingly not outdated at all. When she threatens to tell everyone what he has proposed, he more or less laughs and says, "Who would believe you?" People haven't changed much, I guess. Being a comedy, it comes out OK in the end, but not before the characters undergo some turmoil.

We really enjoyed the show, and we're thinking ahead to going again next year. With Caesar and Richard III, that makes three Shakespeare plays we've added to our life list this year. We haven't had a year like that since we were undergraduates, and spent a semester in London.