Puer Adoptatus

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AdoptionAge versus youthChildrenDeathDebtDeceptionDeceitful sonPrideFamilial relationshipsFather/son relationshipsFoolish old manLesson: greed

An adopted son wants to live frivolously and also inherit from his father, a French gentleman. To achieve this, he incites the murder of his innocent stepmother and then uses seven other to strangle his father.

Adapted from Wikeley (1983) by Ava Byrne.

Note
Analogous to Italian versions, although Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben sees similarities in the middle Dutch drama Esmoreit.

Critical Literature
Hoffman von Fallersleben (1838)

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Narrator Pages Empress Erasto, L'Amabile di Continentia

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