The Problem With Measure for Measure

Measure for measure may be more problematic in the light of previous Shakespearean comedies than it is in thelight of comedies by other writers. So if we go to Shakespeare wanting it to be same old, same old, the stuff he's been doing for years, measure for measure may seem problematic. This would look like a comedy very much in keeping with comedies byother people from the same period. The real critical question involved here is does anything that exhibits the structure of a comedy have to be taken as a comedy regardless of its content?