Claim: George Chapman's1605 comedy, "All Fools," his highest achievement in comedy, described as a "flawless, perfectly balanced play" had two senior characters with different personalities -one manipulative, the other mellow-tempered.
Evidence: All Fools is an early Jacobean era stage play, a comedy by George Chapman that was first published in 1605. The play has often been considered Chapman's highest achievement in comedy: "not only Chapman's most flawless, perfectly balanced play," but "also his most human and large-minded." Gostanzo is a brashly acquisitive and manipulative old man, an "old, politique, dissembling knight" who believes that "Honesty is but a defect of wit." In contrast, Marc Antonio is a mellower-tempered gentleman who follows a course of "simple honesty."