Mesure pour mesure

In decadent Vienna, young Isabella dreams only of the most austere convent to cloister herself in, while Angelo, the ice-blooded man who has become acting governor of the city, dreams only of purity. His task is to rid the city of its brothels and corruption. The exercise of his power leads him to condemn Isabella's brother to be beheaded for knocking up his fiancée. But when Isabella comes to him to plead her brother's cause, Angelo is inflamed with the most ardent desire for the cold nun...
By its ambiguities and the opacity of its silences, Mesure pour mesure is the work whose every staging unveils latent meanings, elucidates apparent contradictions to reveal a new problematic: that of a work already resolutely modern in 1604.