SLY, CHRISTOPHER


Meaning of SLY, CHRISTOPHER in English

the drunken tinker of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. He appears in the Induction of the play. It is for Sly, who is made the victim of a practical joke, that the players supposedly perform the play. The device of a play within a play, not uncommon in Shakespeare's work, introduces the theme of illusion versus reality.

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