He lists 30 different male masks ( old age with white or grey hair, the tyrant with thick black hair, a fair, pale masks indicating sorrow or sickness, a boastful soldier, a rustic, servants, a cook, etc . ) and 17 female masks ( fat and thin old women, two matrons, one virgin, a bawd, a mistress, three courtesans, a lady s maid, etc . ).
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The case attracted a great deal of public attention, with one commentator observing that " only " The Pickwick Papers ", rewritten by James Joyce, could really capture the mood of this trial . " Among the witnesses for the prosecution was William Sinclair's nephew-by-marriage, Samuel Beckett, then a little-known writer, who was humiliatingly denounced as a " bawd and blasphemer " by Gogarty's counsel.
