"Shakespeare's plays almost invariably have a part for a clown, and Launcelot Gobbo is a typical one."
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"He brings humour into the play in two main ways."
"Firstly, he makes mistakes with words: for instance 'infect' for 'affect' and 'reproach' for 'approach'."
"Also, he creates confusion by using double meanings and pretending to misunderstand, as he does with Lorenzo in Act III, scene 5."
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"However, there is a touch of Launcelot's more serious nature when he sadly bids farewell to Jessica, and he performs a useful function in the play by being a go-between for Jessica and Lorenzo."
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"Jessica about Launcelot"
"Our house is hell, and thou a merry devil"
"Dids't rob it of some taste of tediousness. (II,3)"