The Problem Plays of Shakespeare by Schanzer Ernest;

Author:Schanzer, Ernest; [Schanzer, Ernest]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2005-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

(2.4.42-49)

Apart from their immediate tactical purpose, these words also seem to express Angelo’s real convictions.

This passage serves as a bridge to the view of Angelo as a false coin. It is not without piquancy to hear one false coin denounce the making of others, though, hereas what is false in Angelo is not the stamp which the Duke has put upon him but the metal (he is not the gold that his glitter suggests), what is false in the coins that he denounces is not the metal but the stamp (they are illicitly minted). The references to Angelo as a coin occur in the opening scene of the play. Before having him called, the Duke asks Escalus: ‘What figure of us think you he will bear?’ (1.1.17). And when acquainted with the office entrusted to him Angelo exclaims:

Now, good my lord,

Let there be some more test made of my metal,

Before so noble and so great a figure

Be stamp’d upon it.

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