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  1. Dec 2020
    1. TROUBLE-ALL There must be a warrant had, believe it. WINWIFE For what? TROUBLE-ALL For whatsoever it is, anything indeed, no matter what.

      The English and their "warrants." Are warrants indicative of a larger movement in society towards modernism?

    2. the stocks

      What is so embarrassing about the stocks. The stocks are in a public space, where you can be ridiculed and humiliated. What is the significance of demeaning another person to the pomposities of humor?

  2. Nov 2020
    1. But that such person 130 or persons, so found, be left discovered to the mercy of the author,

      "Don't think too much about what I am saying, about whom I am implying." Just go with it, it's funny

    1. Prospero, the prime duke

      Our main character, named not so far from "Prosper," a man in a position of high power - "the prime duke." What could possibly go wrong?

    2. The direful spectacle of the wreck

      This rings with oxymoronic irony. It is beautiful.

      Kuddos to Shakespeare for starting this work with a beautiful tragedy.

      Could this kind of perspective be an aspect of comedy? A coping mechanism?