"Measure for Measure": chiasmus, justice, and mercy.

Style | December 22, 2001| | Copyright

1. Chiasmus, Antimetabole, Commutatio, Permutatio, Counterchange

Ye haue a figure which takes a couple of words to play with in a verse, and by making them to chaunge and shift one into others place they do very pretily exchange and shift the sence.

(Puttenham 208)

'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis, 'tis true-a foolish figure.

(Hamlet 2.2.98-99)

Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern. Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz.

(2.2.33-34)

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