Editing Measure for Measure (section)

==Adaptations and cultural references==
[[File: W.E.F. Britten - The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Mariana.jpg|thumb|upright|1899 illustration by [[William Britten|W. E. F. Britten]] for [[Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Tennyson]]'s "[[Mariana (poem)|Mariana]]"]]

===Film adaptations===
* The 1979 BBC version, shot on videotape and directed by Desmond Davis, is generally considered a faithful rendition of the play. [[Kate Nelligan]] plays Isabella, [[Tim Pigott-Smith]] plays Angelo and [[Kenneth Colley]] plays the Duke. It was shown on PBS in the United States as part of the ''[[BBC Television Shakespeare#Measure for Measure|BBC Television Shakespeare]]'' series.
* A 1994 TV adaptation was set in the present day, and starred [[Tom Wilkinson]], [[Corin Redgrave]] and [[Juliet Aubrey]].
* In a 2006 version directed by Bob Komar the play is set in the British Army in the present day. It starred Josephine Rogers as Isabella, Daniel Roberts as Angelo, and Simon Phillips as the Duke.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Rogers|first1=Josephine|title=Measure for Measure|date=2006-09-01|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0834931/?ref_=rvi_tt|last2=Roberts|last3=Phillips|last4=Agerwald|first2=Daniel|first3=Simon|first4=Emma|access-date=2017-03-08}}</ref>
* The 2015 film ''M4M: Measure for Measure'' recontextualizes Isabella's character by changing her gender from female to male, making this version the first to incorporate homosexual interactions.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Adler|first1=Howard|title=M4M: Measure for Measure|date=2013-02-28|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2708382/?ref_=rvi_tt|last2=Alford|last3=Asher|last4=Benjamin|first2=Jarod Christopher|first3=Howard|first4=Jeremiah|access-date=2017-03-08}}</ref>
* A 2019 Australian feature film adaptation, directed by [[Paul Ireland]], is set in contemporary Melbourne.

===Radio adaptations===

* In 1950, Peter Brook directed a BBC Home Service birthday tribute to Shakespeare<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0e6f3b5e83624574935f1b03eeaf522d | title=BBC Genome| date=23 April 1950}}</ref> with John Gielgud as Angelo, Leon Quartermaine as Lucio, Harry Andrews as Vincentio, Barbara Jefford as Isabella, and Robert Hardy as narrator.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av67097 | title=BUFVC, ''Measure for Measure'' 1950}}</ref>
* In 1951, AE A Harding arranged and produced a BBC Third Programme version,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/760d6da403cf4ca0aa7fe165b17d1a0f | title=BBC Genome| date=20 June 1951}}</ref> with Stephen Murray as Angelo, Dennis Arundell as Lucio, Laidman Browne as Vincentio, Claire Bloom as Isabella.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av70754| title=BUFVC, ''Measure for Measure'' 1951}}</ref>
* In 1955, Raymond Raikes adapted and produced a BBC Third Programme version<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3b1d39eee6384360a58c91a948a57f0c | title=BBC Genome| date=27 March 1955}}</ref> with Michael Hordern as Angelo, Heron Carvic as Lucio, Deryck Guyler as Vincentio, Hermione Hannen as Isabella, and John Gabriel as narrator.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av69190 | title=BUFVC, ''Measure for Measure'' 1955}}</ref> An off-air recording exists.
* In 1964, Raymond Raikes adapted and produced a BBC Third Programme version<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0ae68a26d8bc4fc1b6f22b2359ad4436 | title=BBC Genome| date=13 November 1964}}</ref> with William Squire as Angelo, David March as Lucio, Anthony Nicholls as Vincentio, and Barbara Jefford as Isabella.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av71419 | title=BUFVC, ''Measure for Measure'' 1964}}</ref>
* In 1976, Jane Morgan produced a BBC Radio 3 version<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/38eab969cbf946f590dc642e5e654552 | title=BBC Genome| date=7 March 1976}}</ref> with Philip Bond as Angelo, Norman Rodway as Lucio, Michael Gough as Vincentio, and Marian Diamond as Isabella.<ref>{{Cite web | title=BUFVC, ''Measure for Measure'' 1976| url=https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av71537}}</ref>
* In 1994, Peter Kavanagh adapted and directed a BBC Radio 3 version<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c5ec29f416e14fc688406217a7ec475c | title=BBC Genome| date=19 June 1994}}</ref> with John Shrapnel as Angelo, Simon Russell Beale as Lucio, Ronald Pickup as Vincentio, and Saskia Reeves as Isabella.<ref>{{Cite web | title=BUFVC, ''Measure for Measure'' 1994| url=https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av67295}}</ref>
* In 2004, [[BBC Radio 3]]'s ''Drama on 3'' broadcast a production directed by Claire Grove, with [[Chiwetel Ejiofor]] as The Duke, [[Nadine Marshall]] as Isabella, [[Anton Lesser]] as Angelo, [[Adjoa Andoh]] as Mariana, Jude Akuwudike as Claudio, Colin McFarlane as the Provost, and Claire Benedict as Mistress Overdone.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/productions/measure-measure-2004-bbc-bbc-radio-3 |title=''Measure for Measure'' (2004): BBC, BBC Radio 3 &#124; BBA Shakespeare |access-date=25 April 2018 |archive-date=26 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726222720/https://bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/productions/measure-measure-2004-bbc-bbc-radio-3 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* On 29 April 2018, [[BBC Radio 3]]'s ''Drama on 3'' broadcast a new production directed by Gaynor Macfarlane, with Paul Higgins as The Duke, Nicola Ferguson as Isabella, Robert Jack as Angelo, Maureen Beattie as Escalus, Finn den Hertog as Lucio/Froth, Michael Nardone as the Provost, Maggie Service as Mariana, Owen Whitelaw as Claudio/Friar Peter, Sandy Grierson as Pompey, and Georgie Glen as Mistress Overdone/Francisca.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0wrpp | title=BBC Radio 3 – Drama on 3, ''Measure for Measure''}}</ref>

===Musical adaptations===
* [[Richard Wagner]]'s opera ''[[Das Liebesverbot]]'', with the libretto by the composer
* The musical ''[[Desperate Measures (musical)|Desperate Measures]]'' (2004), with book and lyrics by [[Peter Kellogg (writer)|Peter Kellogg]] and music by [[David Friedman (composer)|David Friedman]]

===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}}