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... humor in which satirical commentators present the " humor " characters . In the comedies of humor such comments perform the ac- cepted comic function of holding a mirror up to society , and the use of the same device here tends to ...
... humor in which satirical commentators present the " humor " characters . In the comedies of humor such comments perform the ac- cepted comic function of holding a mirror up to society , and the use of the same device here tends to ...
Page 64
... humor , there is nothing left for Macilente to envy , and so he too is out of his humor , " emptie of all envie , " his " soule at peace . " ( v , xi , 54-5 . ) As he steps forward to give the curtain speech he puts off the character of ...
... humor , there is nothing left for Macilente to envy , and so he too is out of his humor , " emptie of all envie , " his " soule at peace . " ( v , xi , 54-5 . ) As he steps forward to give the curtain speech he puts off the character of ...
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... humor . The same sort of humor recurs in some of the later scenes , particularly those in which Malevole goads Bilioso . This humor does not dissipate the at- mosphere of evil but certainly modifies it , as indeed the humor of Juvenal ...
... humor . The same sort of humor recurs in some of the later scenes , particularly those in which Malevole goads Bilioso . This humor does not dissipate the at- mosphere of evil but certainly modifies it , as indeed the humor of Juvenal ...
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