‘We are all frail.’
I must keep this line in mind. Funny how while Angelo and Isabella were quibbling away while the scene was being blocked, I couldn’t stop thinking of how the line really meant:
WOMEN ARE FRAIL. FULL STOP.
I hear echoes of Hamlet: ‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’ Shakespeare had just written and staged _Hamlet_ a few years before moving to the Mountjoy’s residence on Silver Street in 1604 where he wrote _Measure for Measure_.
Angelo later says, ‘Nay, women are frail, too.’ But he really meant to say it with a full stop. We shall see, then.