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The related subplot concerns the adventures of
Rutilio, who fights a duel with Manuel's arrogant young nephew Duarte and apparently kills him. Rutilio is unknowingly sheltered by his opponent's mother Guidomar, the arrested by the watch, then ransomed by Sulpitia for her sexual service. Rutilio is
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he is also the suitor of
Zenocia. Against her father Charino's advice, Zenocia prefers Arnoldo, a young man travelling with his older brother Rutilio. Arnoldo and Zenocia marry, and resist Clodio's attempt to claim his "right" with Zenocia; they escape with Clodio in hot pursuit. Reaching the
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The play belongs to a sub-category of
Fletcher works sometimes called "chastity plays" for their concern with that subject. This sexual emphasis disturbed many traditional critics, though
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seacoast, the three young people are waylaid by
Leopold, the captain of a Portuguese vessel. The two young men escape by swimming to shore, but Zenocia falls into Leopold's clutches.
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The play was rarely staged even during the century after
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The Later
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from the charge of lewdness, and claims that there is more "bawdry" in this play than in all later plays combined.
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The Plays of
Beaumont and Fletcher: An Attempt to Determine Their Respective Shares and the Shares of Others.
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redeemed from this servitude by a recovered and repentant Duarte, and eventually marries
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in London. It forms part of the 2013 Actors' Renaissance Season at the
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New Haven, Yale University Press, 1927; pp. 156 and 224.
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Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1978; p. 37.
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720:The Double Marriage
650:The Island Princess
562:The Noble Gentleman
407:William Shakespeare
306:E. H. C. Oliphant,
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671:A Wife for a Month
541:A King and No King
534:The Maid's Tragedy
224:droit du seigneur.
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124:William Ecclestone
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587:The Woman's Prize
555:The Scornful Lady
548:Love's Pilgrimage
319:Oliphant, p. 225.
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807:Love's Cure
657:The Pilgrim
622:The Chances
594:Valentinian
527:The Captain
513:The Coxcomb
238:John Dryden
167:Restoration
94:Performance
43:written by
41:tragicomedy
1336:Categories
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1282:(1612–24?)
977:King's Men
852:Henry VIII
836:with Field
782:and others
432:Ben Jonson
281:References
220:witchcraft
146:Authorship
108:John Lowin
100:King's Men
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690:Massinger
520:Philaster
427:John Ford
152:Cyrus Hoy
73:Cinthio's
69:Cervantes
1024:Cardenio
780:Fletcher
572:Fletcher
489:Beaumont
464:Beaumont
199:Synopsis
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