M&D: a Wastrel and a Lawyer walk into a bar

[Mark Kohut]

Well, we know, of course that lawyers were considered wastrels in the
Elizabethan era too....
We know Shakey had LOTS of lawyers and law words in those plays...

I don't know of any play that is literally like it.....the mixed identity
plays---Two Gentleman, etc...
are not with lawyers...

but I often have Measure for Measure, a fave of mine--and of Shakey, we
know from that early story--
in mind as the Duke leads his 'pretend wastrel life" then comes up from
under and "'applies the law'...[so ambiguously, granted]

It is said to be the play most "about the law"

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know if there's a specific thing being referenced in this
> Shakespearian scheme the twins are referring to on p. 146...
>
> "'Our idea, actually,' says Pitt, 'is for one of us to run away and
> pretend to lead a Wastrel's Life, whilst the other applies himself
> diligently to the Law,--'
>
> "'--making it even less possible to tell you apart,' declares their
> Aunt Euphie."
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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