Yu Jin Ko is a Shakespeare scholar at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and our guest conversationalist for the Talk Back after the production of "Measure for Measure" 7 p.m. Saturday Aug. 21 at the Stonington Opera House on Deer Isle in Maine. He will be joined onstage by director Jeffrey Frace and Opera House artistic director Judith Jerome to talk about the play, the production and Shakespeare's life and times. Recently, I asked Yu Jin (whose name is pronounced Yoo Gin) to answer three questions. You can read the first here; the second here and the third (Is "Measure for Measure" a love story?) is below. For this one, Yu Jin leaves us with a question. Come to the Talk Back after the show and bring your own questions for our guest speaker! Don't miss out on the fun; buy tickets now!
AA: Is this a love story?
YJK: If it is a love story, it’s a curious love. I would say there is love in it, but – as with mercy and justice – each vision of love is deeply compromised. Juliet, Mariana, they both possess something called love but it comes out in ways that are self-deceiving or in ways that hurt them or that make you question the substance of the feeling. But I gather the question is directed toward the Duke and Isabella and whether love is possible between the two. The play leaves you hanging doesn’t it? Isabella never responds to the Duke’s offer. Is it an offer or is it a demand? What is it when he asks or tells or orders her to be his? I don’t know. What would you do if you were in Isabella’s position?
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