Phillips performed in many plays in New York over the next fifteen years, including Terrence McNally ’ s Lips Together, Teeth Apart for Manhattan Theatre Club ( at the Lucille Lortel Theatre ), Measure for Measure with Kevin Kline for the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Delacorte Theater, the premier of the musical My Favorite Year at Lincoln Center, with Tim Curry and Andrea Martin, as well as revivals and new plays at theatres like the Hudson Guild Theatre, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the American Jewish Theatre, Chelsea Theatre Center, and again at Playwrights Horizons.

The humor of Dogberry's character is his frequent use of malapropism, a technique Shakespeare would use again in Elbow from Measure for Measure.

A Resolution under the Church of England Assembly ( Powers ) Act 1919, directing that the Measure should be presented to His Majesty, was passed in the House of Lords by a large majority.

Early in the year 1928 a second Measure ( known as the Prayer Book Measure 1928 ) was introduced in the Church Assembly, proposing to authorise the use of the Deposited Book of the previous year with certain amendments thereto which were set out in a Schedule to Measure.

Nonconformist members and members from constituencies which would not have been affected by the Revised Book were only exercising their full legal rights in throwing out a Measure which was approved by the majority of English Members of Parliament.

Measure theory was developed in successive stages during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Émile Borel, Henri Lebesgue, Johann Radon and Maurice Fréchet, among others.

Shakespeare's use of it in All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure followed his sources for the plays ( stories by Boccaccio and Cinthio ); nevertheless Oxfordians say that de Vere was drawn to these stories because they " paralleled his own ", based on Osborne's anecdote.

Measure for Measure differs from its sources in that Claudio's crime was changed from murder to seduction of a maiden — the same crime that sent Oxford to the Tower of London.

From the late 16th through the 18th century, punk was a common, coarse synonym for prostitute ; William Shakespeare used it with that meaning in The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1602 ) and Measure for Measure ( 1623 ).

An original novel, Last Full Measure, was released in April 2006.

During the Restoration, Measure was one of many Shakespearean plays adapted to the tastes of a new audience.

* The Bertolt Brecht play, Round Heads and Pointed Heads, was originally written as an adaptation of Measure for Measure.

He returned to London for the 1933 – 34 Old Vic Season and was engaged in four Shakespeare roles ( as Macbeth and Henry VIII, Angelo in Measure for Measure and Prospero in The Tempest ) and also as Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard, Canon Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Tattle in Love for Love.

Middleton was also branching out into other dramatic endeavours ; he was apparently called on to help revise Macbeth and Measure for Measure, and at the same time he was increasingly involved with civic pageants.

Faced with decreasing government revenues due to a recession in the local economy, voters approved a three-year local income tax ( Measure 26-48 ) on May 20, 2003 to prevent further cuts in schools, police protection, and social services.

However, on November 4, 2003, Cotati voters approved ( by 1, 047 votes to 1, 013 ) Measure B, granting an exception to this ordinance so that a Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse could be built on the west side of U. S. 101.

If approved by Tynwald, a Measure " shall have the force and effect of an Act of Tynwald upon the Royal Assent thereto being announced to Tynwald ".

Although the Citizen Service Act was approved by both the Subcommittee on Special Education and the Committee on Education and the Workforce in June 2002, the House of Representatives took no further action on the Measure, and the pledge remains unchanged.

In 2004, Berkeley voters approved Measure I, amending the City's charter to change the date of mayoral elections to coincide with presidential elections and to adjust the mayor ’ s 2006 term to two years on a one-time basis to accomplish this result.

Between 1996 and 2002, the fifth lane in both directions was constructed between I-5 and SR 91, funded with a sales tax of half a cent approved by Measure M. In April 2007, the Orange County Transportation Authority approved funds to study the feasibility of extending the Costa Mesa Freeway south to 17th Street via tunnels or flyover ramps.

Measure 47 was placed on the ballot by initiative petition by anti-tax activist Bill Sizemore and approved by voters in the November 1996 general election, with 704, 554 votes in favor and 642, 613 votes against.

73. 2 % of Dublin voters approved School Bond Measure ' C ' in the November 2004 election.

School Bond Measure ' C ' approved the Dublin Unified School District to issue $ 184, 000, 000 in school bonds over time for various school improvement projects.

In November 1990, Orange County voters approved Measure M, a half-cent increase in the county sales tax to finance transportation improvements.

In 1996, voters approved a half cent general county sales tax, Measure B, and a companion list of transportation projects recommended to be funded with Measure B, called ( 1996 ) Measure A.

On November 5, 1996, San Mateo County voters approved Measure T by 76 %, changing the county's stated preference from construction of the bypass to construction of a tunnel.

Oregon voters approved Measure 7, but the Oregon Supreme Court later nullified it.

In November, 2008, 75 % of voters approved Measure PS, a $ 235 million school bond measure, to provide for the renovation of schools.

The legislative session in 2010 that referred Measure 71 to voters was a special session approved during the 2009 session by a majority of legislators, who were hoping to eventually win approval of a change to regular annual sessions.

Nearby Ruben S. Ayala High School was nearing 4, 000 students and voters approved Measure M, a bond initiative to relieve overcrowding and build a second high school in Chino Hills.

* Measure algebra: A Banach algebra consisting of all Radon measures on some locally compact group, where the product of two measures is given by convolution.

* Greatest Common Measure: The Last 2500 Years, by Alexander Stepanov

The study " A Measure of Media Bias " by political scientist Timothy J. Groseclose of UCLA and economist Jeffrey D. Milyo of the University of Missouri-Columbia, purports to rank news organizations in terms of identifying with liberal or conservative values relative to each other.

* Measure of the Church of England is a law passed by the General Synod and the UK Parliament equivalent of an Act

* Measure of the National Assembly for Wales, a law specific to Wales passed by the Welsh Assembly between 2007 and 2011

Facsimile of the title page of Measure for Measure from the First Folio, published in 1623Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604.

In their book Shakespeare Reshaped, 1606 – 1623, Gary Taylor and John Jowett argue that part of the text of Measure that survives today is not in its original form, but rather the product of a revision after Shakespeare's death by Thomas Middleton.

Isabella ( 1888 ) by Francis William TophamThe earliest recorded performance of Measure for Measure took place on St. Stephen's night, 26 December 1604.

* The opera Das Liebesverbot ( 1836 ) by Richard Wagner with the libretto written by the composer based on Measure for Measure

Stylistic evidence indicates that the extant text of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure was partly adapted by Middleton in 1621.

With a large financial backing and a fear of " NIMBYism " a resounding 67. 3 % of voters passed Measure F, effectively killing the potential airport project.

* Measure T ( To substantially increase business license fee for large corporations like Chevron ), passed