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After Anne rejects her lover Slightall for the aristocratic Lord Skales, he falls into spendthrift behavior and debt. Her father stages an infernal masque and disguises himself as the Devil, offering financial rescue in exchange for Slightall’s soul; the supposed diabolical marriage instead reunites the lovers. In a comic subplot, a friar exposes an innkeeper’s wife and her constable lover through a staged conjuring trick.
In a Caroline historical tragedy, King John pursues Matilda, daughter of the rebellious baron Fitzwater, while struggling against his barons and the papal legate. Matilda is repeatedly captured and rescued before John orders her death; her martyrdom finally brings the king to remorse and reconciliation.
Jealous Lorenzo tests his faithful wife Abstemia by asking his friend Philippo to seduce her; when the plot backfires, false testimony separates them and a sequence of disguises, mistaken identities and confessions eventually reunites them. In a comic subplot, the trusting Lodovico discovers that his wife Dorothea has been unfaithful and pregnant by their servant.
After Anne rejects her lover Slightall for the aristocratic Lord Skales, he falls into spendthrift behavior and debt. Her father stages an infernal masque and disguises himself as the Devil, offering financial rescue in exchange for Slightall’s soul; the supposed diabolical marriage instead reunites the lovers. In a comic subplot, a friar exposes an innkeeper’s wife and her constable lover through a staged conjuring trick.
In a Caroline historical tragedy, King John pursues Matilda, daughter of the rebellious baron Fitzwater, while struggling against his barons and the papal legate. Matilda is repeatedly captured and rescued before John orders her death; her martyrdom finally brings the king to remorse and reconciliation.
Jealous Lorenzo tests his faithful wife Abstemia by asking his friend Philippo to seduce her; when the plot backfires, false testimony separates them and a sequence of disguises, mistaken identities and confessions eventually reunites them. In a comic subplot, the trusting Lodovico discovers that his wife Dorothea has been unfaithful and pregnant by their servant.