1.) Morose mentions "speaking and counterspeaking" when he relates the noises of the court that force him to flee. How might this idea of speech and counterspeech, or social dialogue, get at the deeper anxieties underlying the character's hatred of "noise"? What is the noise he's avoiding, actually? How does it relate to his function in the play, especially as a contrast to Truewit, Clerimont, and Dauphine?

2.) Dauphine exclaims of Truewit "Ay, you have many plots!" He later comments that "Thou think'st thou wert undone if every jest thou mak'st were not published." What is the driving force behind Truewit's plotting, and why -- besides the obvious genre expectation -- does he have so many? As Dauphine's latter line inquires, is there value to any of plots in the play if their conclusions are not publicly performed and accessible to the other characters?