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===In popular culture=== * The character of Mariana inspired [[Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Tennyson]]'s poem "[[Mariana (poem)|Mariana]]" (1830).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pattison|first1=Robert|title=Tennyson and tradition|date=1979|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.|isbn=978-0-674-87415-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/tennysontraditio0000patt/page/11 11]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/tennysontraditio0000patt/page/11}}</ref> * [[Alexander Pushkin]] used the play's plot in his poetic tale ''Angelo'' (1833). He had begun to translate the play, but arrived at a generally non-dramatic tale with some dialogue.<ref>{{cite book|last1=O'Neil|first1=Catherine|title=With Shakespeare's Eyes: Pushkin's Creative Appropriation of Shakespeare|date=2003|publisher=University of Delaware Press|page=69|chapter=Of Monarchs and Mercy}}</ref> * [[Joyce Carol Oates]]'s short story "[[In the Region of Ice]]" contains the dialogue between Claudio and his sister and parallels the same plea with the student, Allen Weinstein, and his teacher, Sister Irene. * [[Bertolt Brecht]]'s play ''[[Round Heads and Pointed Heads]]'' was originally an adaptation of ''Measure for Measure''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Parker|first1=Stephen|title=Bertolt Brecht: A literary life|date=2014|publisher=Bloomsbury|location=London|isbn=978-1-4081-5563-9|page=300}}</ref> * [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s early short story "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna" was inspired by this play and takes its title from a verse in it. * In [[Aldous Huxley]]'s novel [[Eyeless in Gaza (novel)|''Eyeless in Gaza'']], Mr Beavis expresses a "tingling warmth" he feels while listening to Mrs Foxe reading the last scene of ''Measure for Measure''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Huxley |first1=Aldous |title=Eyeless in Gaza |date=2004 |publisher=Vintage Classics |location=London |page=81 |oclc=56447401 |language=en |isbn=0-09-945817-9|orig-date=1936}}</ref> * The title of Huxley's 1948 novel ''[[Ape and Essence]]'' comes from a line spoken by Isabella, act 2 scene 2: "His glassy essence, like an angry ape".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Zigler|first1=Ronald Lee|title=The Educational Prophecies of Aldous Huxley|date=2015|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=978-1-138-83249-7|page=65}}</ref> * [[Lauren Willig]]'s 2011 novel ''Two L'' is based on ''Measure for Measure''.{{cn|date=July 2023}}
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