On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 08:00 AM, RARA-AVIS Digest
wrote:
> THERSITES Prithee, be silent, boy; I profit not by
thy talk:
> thou art thought to be Achilles' male
varlet.
> PATROCLUS Male varlet, you rogue! what's
that?
> THERSITES Why, his masculine whore. -
>
> (TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, William
Shakespeare)
Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights were familiar often at
second hand with the classical sources, but not especially
with the sociological and philosophical background of what
they found there. You are quoting a purely Tudor piece of
dialogue - and my prettyfarofftopic response should be read
with the footnote that I'll shut up on this one now.
Marianne
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