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Parolles

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Parolles
cowardly braggart and wastrel. [Br. Lit.: All’s Well That Ends Well]

Parolles
boastful villain of affected sentiment and knowledge. [Br. Lit.: All’s Well That Ends Well]


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He thus analyzes the gender and status of Shakespearean practical jokers and their victims (chapters 1 and 2), Falstaff's role as both comic butt and escape artist (chapter 3), the ideal victim (chapter 4), the joke gone too far (Malvolio, chapter 5), the triumph of the butt Parolles over shame (chapter 6), and villainous practices (chapter 7).
From the ludicrous nonlanguage in All's Well That Ends Well, invented to perplex the pretentiously polyglot Parolles, to Dario Fo's commedia-inspired grammelot four centuries later (a mix of real words, nonsense, and onomotopoeia that gets the point across), (6) the skilled comic performer sells a cosmopolitan openness and linguistic adaptability masquerading as confusion.
In All's Well That Ends Well, for instance, sage old Lord Lafew makes just such a distinction, in attempting to put the social climbing fop Parolles in his place: "You are a vagabond and no true traveler," says Lafew.
 
 
 
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