Isabella (Measure for Measure character)

"Isabella (Measure for Measure character)" is a title based upon conjecture.

Check the behind the scenes section, the revision history and discussion page for additional comments on this article's title.

Isabella was a character in a play by William Shakespeare. She was a nun, and the object of Angelo's "obsessive lust".

Cleo Proctor had to do a Shakespeare monologue for her end-of-year showcase and initially chose one by Isabella but was stopped by her lecturer mid-way through the auditions, having heard enough. She suggested that Cleo might not be suitable for the role as Isabella had to be "sweet, perfect and virtuous" but assured her that she was "so good at the lighter stuff" and that Shakespeare had plenty of comedy roles to choose from. Cleo dejectedly accepted the criticism, later telling her friend Shawna "she might as well have just said 'audition for King Lear or some other hairy man'". (AUDIO: Regrets ^[+]Loading...["Regrets (audio story)"])

While performing her monologue, Cleo was heard to say:

But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he’s most assur’d;
His glassy essence, like an angry ape...

Behind the scenes

Though not stated in Regrets ^[+]Loading...["Regrets (audio story)"], Isabella is a character from William Shakespeare's play, Measure for Measure.