harriet_yang
Junior Member
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- Dec 30, 2010
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- Chinese
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- China
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- China
Dear teachers and fellow learners,
I saw this from a book by Will Durant:
" What made these comedies succeed was not their ancient plots but their wealth of humorous incident, their rollicking puns as bad as Shakespeare's, their boisterous indecency, their gallery of precipitate women, and an their occasional sentiment; in every play the audience could rely upon finding a love affair, a seduction, a handsome and virtuous hero, and a slave with more brains than all the rest of the characters put together."
Words in red are what I don't understand. Thanks ahead for your kind help!
I saw this from a book by Will Durant:
" What made these comedies succeed was not their ancient plots but their wealth of humorous incident, their rollicking puns as bad as Shakespeare's, their boisterous indecency, their gallery of precipitate women, and an their occasional sentiment; in every play the audience could rely upon finding a love affair, a seduction, a handsome and virtuous hero, and a slave with more brains than all the rest of the characters put together."
Words in red are what I don't understand. Thanks ahead for your kind help!