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... roles tend to be strikingly different from the main roles . Rumbelo is no more than a drunken soldier , a character which provides an amusing contrast to the nobility of the Aragonian King . Comedy's secondary role of the Old Woman is ...
... roles tend to be strikingly different from the main roles . Rumbelo is no more than a drunken soldier , a character which provides an amusing contrast to the nobility of the Aragonian King . Comedy's secondary role of the Old Woman is ...
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... role he threatens the main character . In addition , the transforma- tions become even funnier if in each successive role Envy appears more battered than in his last role . Thus as the roles increase in their threat to the hero , the ...
... role he threatens the main character . In addition , the transforma- tions become even funnier if in each successive role Envy appears more battered than in his last role . Thus as the roles increase in their threat to the hero , the ...
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... role predicts the outcome of the play for the audience . Mouse's second role , however , provides for more of the immediate comedy in the play . In his language , he employs illogical statements and mispronunciations . Both forms of ...
... role predicts the outcome of the play for the audience . Mouse's second role , however , provides for more of the immediate comedy in the play . In his language , he employs illogical statements and mispronunciations . Both forms of ...
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