The measuring of Oedipa

[Mark Kohut]

>From this good piece on that great play MEASURE FOR MEASURE, a known
Pynchon direct influence. Remember what the magazine title of the published
part of The Crying of Lot 49 was? "The World, the Flesh, etc.". Another
resonance o that title here? Oedipa leaves her marriage because of its
'attachment to the world', that world she leaves in the novella? Another
anti-Protestant Ethic thrust?
wonderful.


The Protestant Reformation is conventionally understood as elevating
conjugal love above lifelong celibacy. In this view, Catholics had
distrusted marriage as a sign of attachment to the world, the flesh, and
the devil and seen virginity the mark of a pure, uncompromised faith that
set the clergy apart from the laity. By contrast, this story goes,
Protestants deemed marriage the highest spiritual state for clergy and
laity alike. - See more at:
http://blog.oup.com/2016/02/shame-marriage-shakespeare-measure-for-measure/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=oupacademic&utm_campaign=oupblog#sthash.S3encnOm.dpuf
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