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Subject:
Re: Pale Fire Commentary on Line 130]
Date:
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:50:24 -0700
From:
Mike Marcus
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Mike Marcus
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The character of Helena in Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well is based on Gillette de Narbonne in Boccaccio's Decameron, story #9. She is therefore an "ancient Gillette", as it were.