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The SQM production did not treat this as a discrete scene, (see note at ) instead Derrick and John remained on stage after everyone else exited and stepped forward to begin this section of action. What follows is a classic example of Tarlton drawing on the festive tradition of the Lord of Misrule in his clowning (Wiles 21–22). His character Derrick here inverts the social hierarchy by making his cobbler friend play the Lord Chief Justice, and assigning himself the role of the prince. The comic dramaturgy of the scene follows the familiar trickster-dupe motif. Derrick is the trickster who has devised a way for him to give his friend a box on the ear. John is the dupe who gets his ear boxed. In performance, Alon Nashman (Derrick) found ways to bring the audience in on the joke, while presenting convincing arguments to his simple friend. Jason Gray (Cobbler) had what I think is the harder task of being duped. He had to not see what was coming when everyone else could see it coming. His performance of simplicity and enthusiasm for the role play was as important to the success of the scene as Nashman’s trickery. Although the comedy broadened at this point, in the SQM production the scene was not in as stark contrast to the previous scene as has often been supposed. The SQM company found that the plays combined the serious and the comic and learned to shift quickly between modes and to allow both to sit comfortably side by side.

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