THEATER

'Measure for Measure,' Production for Production

By TOBY ZINMAN

London

London. Summer. Four hundred years ago. Opening night of a new play by Shakespeare. Royal records list "Mesur for Mesur," performed at Whitehall Palace on December 26, 1604, but topical references suggest a summer premiere.

That London summer might well have been as difficult as the play's Mistress Overdone, "a bawd,"...

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