By the time one finishes reading this startlingly eclectic study of trickery during sex, with its tales of demons disguised as lovers, women unknowingly bedding animals, husbands befuddled by their wives' twins, and crying games that invert all notions of gender, one is ready to ask, as Wendy Doniger does, why on earth the sexual act is spoken of as "carnal knowledge".
Dr Crippen disguised his lover as a young boy when he fled the country.
She says she has come with Percy's lover, Geraldine, also disguised as a page, who has come to convince Percy he was wrong about her infidelity.
Crippen, a mild-mannered bespectacled doctor, had fled by ship to Canada with his lover Ethel le Neve, who was disguised as a boy.
The second gleefully paraded its sly digs at Romantic opera in its adaptation of a Pushkin story, with Natalia Pavlova as Parasha, who sneaks her lover Vasily (Melikhov again) into the household disguised as the chamber maid Mavra.
The chaotic plot centres on the adventures of Francis Henshall, employed by two different bosses: Rachel, a young woman disguised as her dead twin brother; and Stanley, her lover, who killed the brother, and who is now in hiding.
Ottone, disguised as a woman (in the clothes of his new lover, Drusilla), tries to do so but is foiled by Amore, the young god of love.
And what wine lover won't adore the loo brush holder, disguised as a full-size bottle of wine: "both functional and fun" - £16.99.
This would once have been a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover, passed around the classroom with a giggle, disguised beneath the cover of Calculus for Beginners.
The schemer Don Alfonso persuades two soldiers to test the fidelity of their lovers by disguising themselves and then wooing their best friend's girlfriend.
