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The "extremities" of sumptuary law in Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay.(essay)(Critical essay)
NEAR the conclusion of Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Miles, the play's clownish student, is dismissed from Friar Bacon's service and tutelage for failing to rouse his master at the brief awakening of Bacon's necromantic masterpiece, the "Brasen head." On his own to "see if [he] can want promotion," (1) Miles is ultimately found by a devil conjured up by Bacon "to torment his lasie bones, / For careles watchidg of his Brasen head" (H4). In Vice fashion, however, Miles not only merrily greets Bacon's demonic emissary but also ends up mirthfully riding off to hell on his back. In the interview with the devil leading up to his traditional "southerly" exit, ...
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