Measure for Measure and the (Anti-)Theatricality of Gascoigne's The Glasse of Government

International audienceAdds to the evidence for considering The Glasse of Government as a source for Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and argues that the dramatic method and Puritan orientation of Gascoigne's play would have served intertextually further to complicate audience responses to Shakespeare's already ambiguous text.Ajoute des preuves de l'influence de The Glasse of Government sur Mesure pour Mesure de Shakespeare, tout en proposant que la méthode dramatique et l'orientation puritaine de la pièce de Gascoigne auraient servi, de manière intertextuelle, à compliquer davantage les responses du public au texte shakespearien déjà ambigu