The Comedy of Errors | Adriana and Luciana
In this excerpt, Robert Ornstein briefly discusses the characters of Adriana and her sister, Luciana, both of whom he terms "sympathetically drawn intelligent women."
Robert Ornstein
[In this excerpt, Ornstein briefly discusses the characters of Adriana and her sister, Luciano, both of whom he terms "sympathetically drawn intelligent women." He mantains that Adriana's expectations of her husband, Antipholus of Ephesus, are reasonable, and certainly not shrewish. He assesses Luciana as not simply a pious, moralistic woman, but rather one who "knows too much about the world to have any illusions about the way men treat woman."]
.... There is no place in the dramatic world of Errors for Plautus's gluttonous Parasite or for the crass...
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