It includes Plautus' frequent theme of clever servants outwitting their supposed superiors.

The relationship between a master and a clever servant is also a common element in Elizabethan comedy.

My lord does not mind clever servants, for they work well.

Speed is a clever and witty servant, while Launce is simple and pastoral.

Dominic would have appreciated the name I gave you - the clever, chameleonesque Venetian servant.

Male non-adepts and some of the younger Dreamers did best; they adapted, working hard in the logging camps or becoming clever servants.

Before developing this dualistic persona of the two types of clever and silly servant, Zanni was a character in its own right.

As so often in Molière's comedies, it is left to a clever servant, Toinette, to sort out the confusion.

You can think of Lucentio as a typical romanticist, a university youth insulated from trouble by a rich, indulgent father and two clever servants.

Plautus' frequent theme of clever servants outwitting their supposed superiors finds its place in this play too.