In Other Media
In literature, the bed trick can be seen in Love in Excess, a novel by Eliza Haywood.
The bed trick is also used in Roald Dahl's story The Great Switcheroo.
In Richard Strauss's 1932 opera Arabella, Zdenka/Zdenko, the daughter consigned to live as a boy because of family finances, contrives to pretend she is her sister Arabella in order to sleep with Matteo, with whom she is secretly in love.
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