Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Casina Vs. The Braggart Soldier

I preferred Casina because it is a very amusing story about trickery backfiring on a crooked man.  I preferred it because The Braggart Soldier was hard to follow since seemingly all of the names start with the letter "P".  Also, Casina was interesting to me because it ended in a way that for its time, would have been very unexpected.  The wife was not tricked, in fact, she completely turned the situation around to embarrass and expose her husband.  It wouldn't have been common at that time for the woman to come out ahead and to be shown as more clever than the man. However, that is what happened and that makes for a very interesting play.

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