Lothario that her affair is to be revealed. Lothario and Camilla flee that night, and the maid flees the next day. Anselmo searches for them in vain before learning from a stranger of his wife's affair. He starts to write the story but dies of grief before he can finish. Lothario is a character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795-96) and also in the play "The Fair Penitent" (1703), by Nicholas Rowe, based on the earlier 17th-century play, "The Fatal Dowry" (which itself drew on Cervantes). In Rowe's play, Lothario is a libertine who seduces and betrays Calista; and its
The Two-Character Play to delude themselves, escape from the reality of their deteriorating mental states. Consequently, the viewers themselves are confronted with the darker truths of what it is to be human. It was very experimental for its time. The language is heightened. There are slabs of verbosity juxtaposed with pauses and stunted sentences. "The Two-Character Play" is partially autobiographical. The actor Clare and especially the character Clare are loosely based on Williams’ sister, Rose, and the actor Felice and the character Felice on Williams himself. The "confining nature of human existence" was a major theme throughout his work and this play is