- Our attention is next brought back to Hieronimo's wife, Isabella.
- She is utterly overcome with grief as she soliloquizes at the scene of her son's murder.
- In her passion, she cuts down every single tree in the bower where her son was hanged.
- She curses the place to be ever filled with snakes and all kinds of slimy things.
- As she chides her husband for delaying revenge for so long, she stabs herself in the stomach and dies.
- This is probably the most sorrowful scene in the tragedy, and a reminder that women in the play (and the period) had few outlets to express rage and seek justice after being wronged.