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- Title
EDWARDES'S DAMON AND PITHIAS AND LYLY'S MIDAS.
- Authors
Dean, Paul
- Abstract
The article discusses the clearest example of Richard Edwardes's "Damon and Pithias" on John Lyly's drama, in the subplot of "Midas."where the barber Motto and the pages Dello, Licio and Petulus have been seen as reproductions with improvements of Edwardes's Grim the Collier and the boys Jack and Will. Grim is initially a mouthpiece for the satirical critique of corrupt courtiers also found in the main plot. When Grim remarks that the tyrannical Dionysius is so afraid of assassins that he will be shaved only by his daughters adding that he wishes they would shave him too, Jack and Will offer to act out this fantasy; having muddled him with drink and shaving water they pick his pockets.
- Subjects
LYLY, John, ca. 1554-1606; EDWARDS, Richard, ca. 1523-1566; DAMON (Greek mythology); MIDAS (Legendary character); FANTASY (Psychology); DIONYSIUS, of Halicarnassus
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1983, Vol 30, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Industry Overview
- DOI
10.1093/nq/30-2-131