Sexual Harassment In Measure For Measure, By Bob Komor

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In Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s dramatic interpretation of sexual harassment is empowered with having three gender-specific sub settings: the convent, the prison and the whorehouse. But, these locations are greatly uprooted by shifting to spaces pertaining to headline-grabbing sexual assaults that have come out in the last few decades. For the 2011 live production directed by Audrey Coldron and put on by Actor’s Community Theatre, they used Bradford Cathedral in Yorkshire as their backdrop. Meanwhile, the 2006 film version directed by Bob Komar uses a British Army base, but modernizes the three sub settings. By choosing to interpret the play in these contrasting locales, the “comedy” aspect of the problem comedy is taken away. Doing this

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