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Word: aguecheek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like chains. With its dead characters who are actually alive, its young gentlemen who are really young ladies, its adored one who is really twins, its love-making that is really leg-pulling, the play swarms with rather impractical jokes. Then there are Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, those relentless cutups whom a later age would have relegated to the funny papers. They also have a way of dragging Malvolio-a great comic figure by virtue of being almost tragic-down to their own level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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