Of Gargantua, Rabelais wrote: He was always rolling around in the mud, dirtying his nose scratching his face, and treading down his shoes; and often he gaped after flies,or ran joyfully after the butterflies of whom his father was the ruler. ... Rabelais notes, "And notice here that Gargantua's dinner was sober and frugal, for he only ate enough to ...

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Scenes 1+2 The Wingfield apartment faces an alley in a lower middle class St. Louis tenement. There is a fire escape with a landing that serves as a porch. "The scene is memory," indicate the stage directions, and, as such, the interior is "rather dim and poetic." There is a screen-like surface on ...

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