Isabella critics

Question 1

Charlotte Lennox (18th cent) on Isabella

Answer 1

“A vixen in her virtue with manners of an affected prude”

Question 2

H N Hudson (19th cent) on Isabella

Answer 2

“a saintly anchoress, clad in all the sweet austere composures of womanhood”

Question 3

Charles Marowitz (modern) on Isabella

Answer 3

“A helpless pawn of the law”

Question 4

Charles Marowitz (modern) on Isabella and Angelo

Answer 4

“She is put in the moral predicament of pleading to save the life of the man who tried to ravish her.”

Question 5

H N Hudson (19th cent) on Isabella 2

Answer 5

“Among the finest of Shakespeare’s female characters”