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Richard Wharfinger
In Wharfinger’s The Courier’s Tragedy, Angelo the evil Duke of Squamuglia who spends the whole play trying to seize control of the neighboring duchy of Faggio by installing his ally, Pasquale, in place of the legitimate heir, Niccolò. He also has an incestuous relationship with his sister, Francesca, but wants to marry her to Pasquale—who is Francesca’s son. After Tristero bandits kill Niccolò, Angelo admits to killing a group of Faggio’s soldiers, dumping their bones in a lake, digging up the bones, and making ink out of them. This exactly resembles Tony Jaguar’s business with Beaconsfield cigarettes, although it is unclear what this coincidence means. Gennaro and his men kill Angelo and his entire court at the end of the play.
Angelo Quotes in The Crying of Lot 49
The The Crying of Lot 49 quotes below are all either spoken by Angelo or refer to Angelo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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He that we last as Thurn and Taxis knew
Now recks no lord but the stiletto’s Thorn,
And Tacit lies the gold once-knotted horn.
No hallowed skein of stars can ward, I trow,
Who’s once been set his tryst with Trystero.
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“You came to talk about the play,” he said. “Let me discourage you. It was written to entertain people. Like horror movies. It isn’t literature, it doesn’t mean anything. Wharfinger was no Shakespeare.”
“Who was he?” she said.
“Who was Shakespeare. It was a long time ago.”
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Angelo Quotes in The Crying of Lot 49
The The Crying of Lot 49 quotes below are all either spoken by Angelo or refer to Angelo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3
Quotes
He that we last as Thurn and Taxis knew
Now recks no lord but the stiletto’s Thorn,
And Tacit lies the gold once-knotted horn.
No hallowed skein of stars can ward, I trow,
Who’s once been set his tryst with Trystero.
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“You came to talk about the play,” he said. “Let me discourage you. It was written to entertain people. Like horror movies. It isn’t literature, it doesn’t mean anything. Wharfinger was no Shakespeare.”
“Who was he?” she said.
“Who was Shakespeare. It was a long time ago.”
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