Beau Didapper is a distant relation of Lady Booby who sees Fanny on the road and immediately decides to attempt to rape her. He is of noble blood but doesn’t have an impressive appearance, standing only about four-and-a-half feet tall. He is yet another character who demonstrates the selfishness and lack of morals among the nobility.
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Beau Didapper Character Timeline in Joseph Andrews
The timeline below shows where the character Beau Didapper appears in Joseph Andrews. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book 4, Chapter 9
Lady Booby hears from a visitor named Beau Didapper about a beautiful young lady nearby and knows that it must be Fanny. She proposes...
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Beau Didapper is four feet five inches tall. He doesn’t wear a wig, but he has so...
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Book 4, Chapter 11
Joseph Andrews has uneasily put up with Beau Didapper (who despite trying to rape Fanny earlier is now talking freely with her). When he...
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Book 4, Chapter 14
That night, around three in the morning, Beau Didapper goes to Fanny’s room. The room is dark. Didapper imitates Joseph Andrews’s voice and says...
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...the commotion and comes running. Because it’s dark, Adams only feels the soft skin on Beau Didapper ’s back and the rough beard on Mrs. Slipslop’s face, so he assumes Didapper is...
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