There is still not very much plot-the parody did not necessitate and indeed rather discouraged that, and what there is is arrived at chiefly by the old and seldom very satisfactory system of Anagnorisis-the long-lost-child business.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
The theme is old, and though not "classical" in place, is thoroughly so in its nature, being the story of a combat between a father and a son, who know not each other till too late, of the generosity of the son, of the final triumph of the father, of the Anagnorisis, with the resignation of the vanquished and the victor's despair.
"Matthew Arnold"
George Saintsbury
It has an Anagnorisis, because its subject is the Recognition of Women.
"Lyra Frivola"
A. D. Godley