Escalus (Measure for Measure)

Play

Measure for Measure

Summary

The senior lord of Vienna who serves alongside Angelo as a judge, consistently urging mercy and common sense over Angelo's harshness. His patient, moderate wisdom contrasts with Angelo's rigidity, and his scenes with the comic underworld characters provide gentle satire of Viennese low life.

Notable Quotations

"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." *(II.i)*

Cross-references

• Measure for Measure — the play
• Comedies
• character_angelo_mm — the deputy whose severity he moderates
• character_pompey_mm — the tapster who comes before him in court