Minor characters in this play include the executioner Abhorson and the prisoner Barnardine, who is given clemency in the end.
Minor characters in this play include the executioner Abhorson and the prisoner Barnardine, who is given clemency in the end. Comic relief is provided by the bachelor Lucio and the buffoonish constable Elbow. The protagonist of this play emerges from a nunnery when her brother Claudio is sentenced to death for impregnating his fiancée Juliet. This is ordered by the tyrannical Angelo who rules Venice while the Duke is disguised as a friar. For 10 points, name this play about Isabella, by William Shakespeare.
Minor characters in this play include the executioner Abhorson and the prisoner Barnardine, who is given clemency in the end.
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