Later Developments of The Vice
The Vice character developed into the villain in Renaissance theatre. Richard III in Shakespeare's drama of the same name links himself with the Vice when he declares:
- “Thus like the formal Vice, Iniquity, / I moralize two meanings in one word” (III.i.82–83)
Other examples of the Vice in Renaissance theatre include Iago (who plays up the more villainous aspects of the Vice) from Othello and Sir John Falstaff (who plays up the more comic aspects of the vice) from Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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