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The play's significance to the history of English drama is that the treatment of the material is moral without being specifically religious and that the 'serious' secular comedy of manners and morals is accompanied by the parody and slapstick of the subplot of comic rivalry between the suitors' servants, called A and B, who act as a Chorus, the audience's representatives, interrupters and mockers, and providers of the spirit of games, songs and pastimes. (Davenport & Neuss p. 77)
Henry Medwall's 1497 interlude Fulgens and Lucrece opens with two characters, A and B, who begin their conversation as though they were morely two acquaintances who meet at the performance expecting a play, each denying to the other that he is an actor, despite some knowledge of the argument of the play. (ryan Claycomb: "Curtain Up? Disrupted, Disguised, and Delayed Beginnings in Theater and Drama" in: Brian Richardson: Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices. University of Nebraska Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0803239746. (pp. 167-178) p. 172.)
Bomb, Book & Compass
For future article Bomb, Book & Compass.