Word: caius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caius is a French physician in the play whose accents, mannerisms and character are constantly ridiculed, and whose energy is one of the play's driving comic forces. He had a habit, selon Terry Hands, the director, of kissing those he presumed to be his friends on both checks. The trouble was that all his friends were Englishmen, or normal height, and he was about 4'10". Hence to reach each check he had to hop, and his helloes and good-byes became increasingly more hilarious sight gags...
...brick pillars, and built walls of hollow bricks that would be heated by the fires below. An inscripted name, cut at intervals of ten feet along the lengths of lead pipes used to carry water in residential neighborhoods, revealed that one of ancient Vienne's plumbers was called Caius Lucentius...