Measure for Measure 19

Some Shake-Speare / Bacon parallels in Measure for Measure (19)

(note: this first parallel in this set was also posted earlier (one of the ‘Parallels’) as one probably unique view shared by Shake-Speare and Bacon. See it for a little further commentary.)

Shake-Speare:

Duke: “ . . . it is virtuous to be constant in any undertaking”.

Measure for Measure, 3.2.215

Bacon:

“Constancy is the foundation of virtue”.

De Augmentis, 6.3

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Shake-Speare:

Duke: “ 'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good and good provoke to harm”.

Measure for Measure, 4.1.14

Bacon:

“The sense of hearing and the kinds of music have most operation on manners; as to encourage men and make them warlike; to make them soft and effeminate; to make them grave; to make them light; and to make them gentle and inclined to pity”.

Sylva Sylvarum, 114