title: Measure for Measure
title_page_title: [HT; F1r] MEASVRE For Measure.
paratext_charachter_list: "The names of all the Actors" [G6v]
stationer_entries_in_register: Nov 8, 1623: Entered to Edward  Blount and Isaac Jaggard: "Comedyes. ... Measure for Measure".<br />Jun 19(?), 1627: Transferred from the widow of Isaac Jaggard to Thomas Cotes and Richard Cotes: "her p<i>ar</i>te in Shackspheere playes."<br />Nov 16, 1630: Transferred from Edward Blount to Robert Allott, by a note of 26 June: "Measure for measure"<br />Jul 1, 1637: Transferred from the widow of Robert Allott to John Legat (2) and Andrew Crooke (1) (by order of a court): "saluo Iure cuiuscunq<i>ue</i> ... Shakespeares workes their Part."
stationer_additional_notes: <i>William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion</i> dates the first production to 1603; <i>Annals</i> dates it to 1604. For Middleton's revision of the play in October 1621, see John Jowett, "<i>Measure for Measure</i> (adaptation)," in <i>Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture</i>, 417-21.
transcript_modern_spelling: Measure for Measure