Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pocket. Justice Overdo, who is present in disguise, is accused and placed in the stocks. Then the Puritan Busy enters, and, filled with fanatical zeal, tries to destroy the gaily-colored booths. He is also put in the stocks, where he is jointed presently by Waspe out-wits the drunken guards, and during the confusion, Overdo and Busy escape...
...attempts to stop the performance, but is persuaded to be quiet. Now Overdo appears and discloses his identity, thinking he has discovered the perpetrators of all the crimes at the fair, but finds himself mistaken. Trouble-all, a mad man, Mooncalf, a tapster, and Haggise and Bristle, two drunken watchmen, furnish the low comedy parts...
...Medecin Malgre Lui" is one or Moliere's most characteristic satires of his cherished laughing-stock, the doctors. Squarelle is a drunken woodcutter, who ill-treats his wife, Martine. She seizes an opportunity for revenge, when Valere and Lucas, servants of Geronte, come in search of a doctor for their master's daughter, Lucinda, who, to avoid an unwelcome marriage, feigns dumbness. Martine tells the servants that her husband is a learned physician, but afflicted with an eccentric disinclination to practice his profession unless coerced by a sound thrashing. They seek out the unsuspecting woodcutter, and finding...
...lawn before the iron doors of a hunting castle in the woods, two drunken tramps, Schluck and Jau, are sitting, shouting and gesticulating. In the very midst of the disturbance the Prince Jon Rand and his hunting party appear. The prince at once flies into a fury and threatens to put the two tramps into the stocks. His comrade, Karl, however, persuades him to be patient and promises good sport...