Costard

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Sneak, Doll Tear-sheet, Jane Smile, Costard, Oatcake, Seacoal, and various anonymous "clowns" and "fools."

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  • At the beginning of the play, when T. Stacy Hicks (Costard the cameraman) sets aside the camera and steps into the action, the premise seemed a little shaky. —  Express Milwaukee
  • The village clown Costard (Oleg Ryazantsev) is a comically awkward, happy-go-lucky type who has no interest in getting caught up in his lords 'plans for celibacy, and he unwittingly plays a role in making sure that they don't observe it for long themselves. —  The St. Petersburg Times
  • Jaques, Costard, Trinculo, Mercutio, are confessions, for into the mouths of these he puts his wisest maxims. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
  • And if Costard, Trinculo, Touchstone, Jaques and Mercutio had lived in Salem in Sixteen Hundred Ninety-two, there would have been not only a flashing of merry jests, but a flashing of rapiers as well, and every gray hair of every old dame's head would have been safe so long as there was a striped leg on which to stand Lincoln, liberator of men, loved the motley. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great
  • When all, even his daughters, had forsaken King Lear, the fool bares himself to the storm and covers the shaking old man with his own cloak; and when in our day we meet the avatars of Trinculo, Costard, Mercutio and Jacques, we find they are men of tender susceptibilities, generous hearts and lavish souls Whistler shakes his cap, flourishes his bauble, tosses that fine head, and with tongue in cheek, asks questions and propounds conundrums that pedantry can never answer. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists
 

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