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

[Mark Wright AIA]

Lawyrs: reviled through history for choosing—choosing!—to get a living out of human misery discovered, multiplied, manufactur'd. Unless of course they take the pro-bono route, in which case they cloak themselves instead in the green of Robinhood.
The "wastrel" figure disappoints a good mother.
Back now to lurk i' the murk
Mark Wright
www.wright-robinson-architects.com 

    On Monday, February 12, 2018, 6:26:47 AM EST, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 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."
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