Bits from pre-restoration comedies that are actually still really funny.

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(and not in a snorting "Haha I get it phe3r my awesome brane" way)

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

1. At the end of 'Measure for Measure', when Marianna is explaining the whole elaborate plot to the Duke, how she has "known my husband; yet my husband / Knows not that ever he knew me" etc etc, and Lucio pops up and says: "He was drunk then, my lord: it can be no better".

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

2. The hungy servant (Lazarillo?) in Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Love's Cure' (mostly-awful) is gold all the way, he basically has no function but to proclaim that he's hungry, it's genius. There's an exchange that goes something like:

Bad Guy: And then we shall [Complex plot stuff]!
L: And then shall we eat?
Bad Guy: Yes, then we shall eat.
L: O, Lazarillo, thou art going to supper!

I can't really do it justice but it's just hilarious.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Odd that you mention M for M. I saw the Globe performance, in which almost all the banter and business between Lucio and Duke / Friar was marvellosly funny.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

Hm, this thread sorta predates me getting my ILX schtick together but still REVIVE, 'cos I am rereading Love's Cure and I keep laughing out loud in the library - Lucio being camp! Lazarillo being hungry! I am starting to think B&F may be... underrated?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 23 April 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't hold me to that.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 23 April 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

B&F?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 24 April 2005 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Beaumont and Fletcher! I will read more today and Report Back.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 24 April 2005 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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