Deception in Elizabethan ComedyLoyola University Press, 1955 - 197 pages |
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... Plautus . In the Curculio of Plautus and the Phormio of Terence the parasite is the chief intriguer , it is true , but these are excep- tional cases . In the Captivi , Bacchides , Rudens , and Stichus of Plautus his place is quite ...
... Plautus . In the Curculio of Plautus and the Phormio of Terence the parasite is the chief intriguer , it is true , but these are excep- tional cases . In the Captivi , Bacchides , Rudens , and Stichus of Plautus his place is quite ...
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... Plautus , the atten- tion is focused in The Bugbears on the tricky servants and their dupes ; and though here a second pair of lovers are introduced ( in the manner of Terence rather than of Plautus ) , attention is directed at them but ...
... Plautus , the atten- tion is focused in The Bugbears on the tricky servants and their dupes ; and though here a second pair of lovers are introduced ( in the manner of Terence rather than of Plautus ) , attention is directed at them but ...
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... Plautus ' version the god Jupiter assumes the shape and the appearance of a definite individual named Am- phitryon , and takes his place in his wife's welcoming embraces , while Amphitryon is still on his way home from a military ...
... Plautus ' version the god Jupiter assumes the shape and the appearance of a definite individual named Am- phitryon , and takes his place in his wife's welcoming embraces , while Amphitryon is still on his way home from a military ...
Table des matières
Rare Ingenious Knavery | 1 |
Deception and Its Agents | 8 |
More Deceivers | 42 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
action active appearance assistance attempt audience bring calls Chapman chapter characters clever comic course daughter deceiver deception device directed discussed disguise dramatic duke dupes Easy editor effect element Elizabethan comedy employed English example expose fact false father final Fools frustrated function further George girl give given gull hand Humor husband ignorant intention interest intrigue irony Jonson keep lady least letting London look lover marriage marry master means Measure mentioned merely Merry Middleton mistress Night objectives Plautus play plot present pretends Puritan rogue satire says scene seems seen servant serve Shakespeare Shortyard shown situation stage tells thing thinks Thomas tion trick trickery trickster true turn University Press usurer victims Volpone widow wife Witgood young