Tricky Slave

The Tricky Slave is a clever, lower-class person who brings about the happy ending of a comedy for the lovers.

Description
He/she is more clever than the upper-class people about him, both the lovers and the characters who block their love, and typically also looking out for his own interests; in the New Comedy, the tricky slave or dolosus servus aimed to get his freedom by assisting his young master in love.

Associations

 * Trickster

Literature

 * Morgiana (Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves)