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Pesc&ra characterizes Ferdinand by saying, "A very salamander
il?es in Ms eye. . ,«|4f it would seem apt to describe
Boraola by saying that a chameleon lives in his skin.
We find particularly true about Borsola what Rupert
Brooke says about Webster*s characters ia general—
. . . Ultimately the most sickly, distressing
feature of Webster's characters, their foul and
ind®struetable vitality. • , . fhey kill, love,
torture one another and without ceasing, A play
of Webster* Is fall of the feverish and ghastly
turmoil of a meat of maggots• . . .60
P. L. Lucas says that Boraola is ". . , Ilk© an old
bloodhound, kindled to excitement as the Duke brings back to
his Imagination the details of the hunt of intrigue."5*
All the servants of Volpone are used to run errands and
carry messages except Androgyne, the hermaphrodite• Nan©,
the dwarf, and Castrone, the eunuoh, busy themselves in th®
affairs of" their master. All the servants play around, hav-
ing a good time. lano describes Androgyne as having de-
scended from Pythagoras through sundry Intermediate stages,
including that of an ass, These characters speak in rhyming
couplets, sometimes gult# irregular in foxm, and they reflect
a good deal of satire. When Volpone sends lano and Castrone
Into the streets to start the rumor that he is dead, he tells
49Ibld.. Ill, iii, 50.
SORupert Brook©, John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama
{Sew York, 191.6), p. lis 1
5lP. Ii. Lucas, fhe Complete Works of John Webster (lew
York, 1937), p. 136/ ~
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Branch, James Wesley. The Messenger in Shakespeare, thesis, May 1955; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130421/m1/58/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .