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... ridicule as well . In the Italian learned comedy of the sixteenth century there are duping episodes inspired by Plautus and Terence , but also others , which seem to derive from the novelle , which are even closer to practical jokes ...
... ridicule as well . In the Italian learned comedy of the sixteenth century there are duping episodes inspired by Plautus and Terence , but also others , which seem to derive from the novelle , which are even closer to practical jokes ...
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... ridicule , the essential purpose of duping . In Shakespeare's comedies there are practices which have the shape of duping episodes , but in which ridicule is sup- pressed . Portia and Nerissa play their ring trick on their husbands in a ...
... ridicule , the essential purpose of duping . In Shakespeare's comedies there are practices which have the shape of duping episodes , but in which ridicule is sup- pressed . Portia and Nerissa play their ring trick on their husbands in a ...
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... ridicule ; but , as we have seen , the ridicule is not allowed to go uncensured . Troilus and Cressida provides an excep- tion . There another braggart , ' blockish Ajax ' ( I. iii . 375 ) , is made the butt of the wiser Greeks in a way ...
... ridicule ; but , as we have seen , the ridicule is not allowed to go uncensured . Troilus and Cressida provides an excep- tion . There another braggart , ' blockish Ajax ' ( I. iii . 375 ) , is made the butt of the wiser Greeks in a way ...
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