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| | Performing Life Kix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | This was borne of a tradition held over from the medieval morality plays, plays with characters like Vice and Everyman, representatives to convey a message to the audience, often religious or moralistic. |
 | | They are the barren couple of the play, and we know this before they even begin to bicker about their fate: "Kix = dry, hollow plant stem, figuratively a sapless person." |
 | | Sir Oliver is himself a kix, it would seem; dry, hollow, sapless - unable to produce children, and more importantly for the play, an heir. |
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