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PSEUDOLUS Because, by my faith, if you don't give it, you shall be dunned for it with clamour great and plenteous. Come, now, move yourselves off hence into the house this instant, and in turn give room for my tricks. SIMO Be it so. CALLIPHO You may have your way, PSEUDOLUS But I want you to keep close at home.
Pseudolus is frustrated that Simo’s knowledge of his plan presents an unexpected complication. Noticing Pseudolus, Simo tells Callipho he wants him tortured; Callipho tells him to ask about the rumors. In response to Pseudolus’s witty comments, Simo notes that Pseudolus is “high and mighty” (458); Callipho agrees there is “no lack of ...
Pseudolus. simo. Now he’ll knock you out with his words so that you’ll think that it’s not Pseudolus but Socrates 25 talking to 465 you. pseu. Quite so, you’ve been looking down on me for a long time now, I can feel it. I understand myself that you have little faith in me. You wish me to be useless; still, I’ll be useful.
Alone on stage, Pseudolus boasts of his ability to carry about schemes. Soon Pseudolus encounters Harpax, the Macedonian soldier’s slave, who is looking for Ballio. Pseudolus pretends to be Ballio’s slave, Surus, and tells Harpax he can leave the money for Phoenicium with him. Harpax refuses, but he does leave a sealed letter from his master.
Enter simo and callipho from the latter’s house without noticing Pseudolus. simo If a dictator 23 were to be chosen from among the profligates 415 or the lovers in Attic Athens now, I believe there would be no stronger candidate than my son, given how he alone is the topic of conversation throughout the city now.
Class does not equal intelligence: With the stock character, the clever slave (played by Pseudolus), the audience gets a glimpse that, despite the assumptions that Pseudolus, a slave, cannot possibly outwit the upperclass citizens, Ballio and Simo, this indeed does occur. Pseudolus is able to prove just how clever he is by fooling multiple others in order to help his owner's son, Calidorus.
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Wright 410-411). Out of these roles the ones relating to theater like being a playwright or the self-conscious actor playing an actor are the most impor. (Wright 413). "Pseudolus has been transformed into Plautus hims. (Wright 416). "Pseudolus is characterized in three. ays in the play. He is a Greek, a poet, and a tricks.
