"If virtue no delighted beauty lack/ Your son-in-law is more fair than black." (Duke, 1.3.284-285)
This quote is significant because it relates back to theme of racism, and how people of these times thought the darker you were, the more animalistic you were. What I believe the translation is, is that If a delightful beauty does not lack virture, then your son-in-law is a good person. Also, I think the fair is used as a double...entendre?(spelling?) It means both just and fair-skinned(paler) in this case. So, it goes along with both the idea of pale vs. dark skin(racism theme) and just vs. animalistic(possible character change theme). Plus, It's a rhyming couplet, and those are usually uber-important in plays.
Who in real life(better, our class) reminds you of each character based on the character descriptions, ie. who acts like who, who, when reading, reminds you of whom?
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