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Another question about drama characters I'm afraid, but the previous one attracted some interesting responses: Can anyone think of an example in, say, pre-Restoration drama where Author A invents a fictional character in a play, and then Author B steals that character and redeploys him/her in a new context? I'm not bothered here about three rival versions of someone historical like Julius Caesar, or about authors adapting non-drama works like the Faerie Queene: but simply appropriating individual characters. So far the only examples I have found are DekkSATIROMASTIX which explicitlytly remakes Captain Tucca from POETASTER, and possibly Field's AMENDS FOR LADIES which steals and recolours the (admittedly not entirely fictional) Moll Cutpurse from THE ROARING GIRL. Any other parallels or suggestions about relevant criticism are gladly received, either to the list or to me ([log in to unmask]). All the best, Matthew Steggle Trinity College Oxford ENGLAND.