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Sisyphus - Sly and audacious mortal king in Greek mythology who managed to cheat death twice, but angered the gods in the process and was condemned to endlessly push a boulder up a slope in Tartarus. Sly Peter - In Bulgarian and Macedonian folklore. Stingy Jack - a folkloric character associated with Halloween.
Volpone ([volˈpoːne], Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean era comedies. [citation needed]
The trickster figure Reynard the Fox as depicted in an 1869 children's book by Michel Rodange. In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, human or anthropomorphisation) who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior.
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, [a] in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself.
Alec Leamas in John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Alex Rider, young "informal" MI6 agent in Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series. The series also includes Alan Blunt, head of MI6 Special Operations
Christopher Sly is mentioned in the novel The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde.A man named Victor Analogy explains that the reason why Christopher Sly does not appear after Act One of The Taming of the Shrew is because the character of Sly was, in fact, summoned out of the original copy of the play and thus was removed from the play's plot.
Sly Cooper is an anthropomorphic raccoon and the last member of the Cooper Clan, a long line of master thieves who primarily steal from other criminals. On his 8th birthday, Sly was to inherit an ancient book known as the Thievius Raccoonus, which contains his family's secrets, to help him become a master thief.
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves is a 2005 stealth action video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2.It is the third game in the Sly Cooper series and the final to be developed by Sucker Punch Productions, as Sanzaru Games would develop later installments.