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... Troilus and Cressida constitute a gallery of vividly satiric portraiture . Most of these pictures are drawn by Thersites , a " railer " in Homer and in this play a buffoonish satiric commentator , but he is not the only person in the ...
... Troilus and Cressida constitute a gallery of vividly satiric portraiture . Most of these pictures are drawn by Thersites , a " railer " in Homer and in this play a buffoonish satiric commentator , but he is not the only person in the ...
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... Troilus and Cressida . Animal comparisons , then , merely confirm the inherent cruelty , lust , or deceit of fundamentally evil characters like some of those in Timon of Athens or Troilus and Cressida . But scurrilous animal com ...
... Troilus and Cressida . Animal comparisons , then , merely confirm the inherent cruelty , lust , or deceit of fundamentally evil characters like some of those in Timon of Athens or Troilus and Cressida . But scurrilous animal com ...
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... ( Troilus , II , i , 47 ) , he suggests an ass masquerading under false pretenses as did the ass which donned the lion's skin in Aesop . In Shakespeare , as in the Aesop tradition and , as we shall see later , in the physiognomical ...
... ( Troilus , II , i , 47 ) , he suggests an ass masquerading under false pretenses as did the ass which donned the lion's skin in Aesop . In Shakespeare , as in the Aesop tradition and , as we shall see later , in the physiognomical ...
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