Habeas Corpus is a sex farce, albeit at a sophisticated level, but with frequent descents into vaudeville and even burlesque. some speeches in doggerel, and more than one trouserless male. All of the characters are in the grip of some monomania: Dr. Wicksteed is a lecher, his son has developed the erroneous notion that he is going to die in three months, his daughter is obsessed with her flat-chestedness, and Canon Thrabbing is celibate but eager to remedy that condition. The conclusion: "He whose lust lasts, lasts longest."