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Dear List
I have just started reading Timon (for the first time, I am not
ashamed to admit) and was surprised to find the first two
characters to speak in Act I Scene I are a poet and a painter. I
had assumed that the description by JS of Aunt Maud as 'a poet and
a painter' was just a whimsical nod towards King George I of
England ('I hate all boets and bainters' (sic)) but clearly it
wasn't.
This set me thinking. Everyone here knows about the cave scene as
the source of the title of PF, but what else is there in Timon
that is echoed in PF and is there a comprehensive analysis of the
correspondences between the two works?
Barrie Akin