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1. Note in The Antipodes, Modernised version
This is the first of several indirect allusions in the play always in legal contexts to the lopping of a prisoner's ears as a form of public punishment The references to this act of brutality in th
This is the first of several indirect allusions in the play always in legal contexts to the lopping of a prisoner's ears as a form of public punishment The references to this act of brutality in th
2. Note in The Antipodes, Modernised version
Once again the reference is to the legal punishment that involved docking all or part of a prisoner's ears It is but some 75 lines since the last such mention of the practice The carefree breezily
Once again the reference is to the legal punishment that involved docking all or part of a prisoner's ears It is but some 75 lines since the last such mention of the practice The carefree breezily
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