I have not been able to discover the source of the very curious underplot of The Captives.
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Underplot
Synonyms for "underplot" (25 found)
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Thus, again to quote Mr. Homer Smith, it has been held that 'In general the pastoral incidents serve as an underplot, utterly foreign in spirit to the main plot.'
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