Deception in Elizabethan Comedy

action active appearance assistance attempt audience bring calls Chapman chapter characters clever comic course daughter deceiver deception device directed discussed disguise dramatic duke dupes Easy editor effect element Elizabethan comedy employed English example expose fact false father final Fools frustrated function further George girl give given gull hand Humor husband ignorant intention interest intrigue irony Jonson keep lady least letting London look lover marriage marry master means Measure mentioned merely Merry Middleton mistress Night objectives Plautus play plot present pretends Puritan rogue satire says scene seems seen servant serve Shakespeare Shortyard shown situation stage tells thing thinks Thomas tion trick trickery trickster true turn University Press usurer victims Volpone widow wife Witgood young