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Bellamira, a bankrupt merchant's daughter turned courtesan, manipulates her wealthy keeper and male admirers. A plot involving an alleged eunuch's assault of Isabella exposes the play's satire of a profit-seeking, hypocritical society.
A split-plot Restoration tragicomedy interweaves a heroic romance, a witty couple’s pursuit of an independent marriage, and satire of Puritans, gallants and a lecherous old man. After obstacles impede the aristocratic lovers Althea and Eugenio and Diana and Philander, a deus ex machina brings their marriages about; Olivia and Wildish’s more independent union anchors the middle plot.
Bellamira, a bankrupt merchant's daughter turned courtesan, manipulates her wealthy keeper and male admirers. A plot involving an alleged eunuch's assault of Isabella exposes the play's satire of a profit-seeking, hypocritical society.
A split-plot Restoration tragicomedy interweaves a heroic romance, a witty couple’s pursuit of an independent marriage, and satire of Puritans, gallants and a lecherous old man. After obstacles impede the aristocratic lovers Althea and Eugenio and Diana and Philander, a deus ex machina brings their marriages about; Olivia and Wildish’s more independent union anchors the middle plot.