Barnadine's Straw

Even such a great juggler of fates like Shakespeare is sometimes not able to have his characters enact their destined fate.

Like Michael Pennington points out in his lecture "Barnadine's Straw: The Devil in Shakespeare's Detail", Shakespeare is unable to have Barnadine executed instead of  Claudio in Measure for Measure. Barnadine simply refuses to play along and Shakespeare has to come up with a different solution, or rather head.

Headstrong ;)!