Barn
‘Spectacular barn’
‘In this mad world…the only way to avoid execution is to stay safely asleep’
Isabella
Isabella who indeed is interesting all too interesting. Her militant chastity is the plays centre
Working class likeable
Only the obsessive slanderer Lucio and the dissolute barnadine attract us
Comedy
A comedy that destroys comedy
Duke forgive
We like the duke best at the end when he pardons barn thus giving the triumph to the most humane sentiment in the play ‘I will not consent to die this day’