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In Milan and Florence, Julia becomes pregnant by the Prince of Parma before their marriage, while Stroza's lies drive the court into a series of mistaken accusations and attempted marriages. Banished Lauretta falls in love with the Prince of Florence; a plan to exchange places with Julia exposes Stroza's schemes and brings both couples to their intended partners.
When Frankford discovers that his wife Anne has had an affair with his friend Wendoll, he expels her to live apart rather than execute her, and eventually forgives her as she lies dying. A parallel plot follows the poverty-stricken Charles and Susan and Sir Francis's shift from vengeance to love.
A two-part Elizabethan history play follows Edward IV’s courtship of Jane Shore, her attempts to use her influence to obtain pardons, and her expulsion after Edward’s death under Richard III.
Two rural families’ fortunes reverse: the mild Forrests lose their wealth while the ruthless Hardings prosper. After Old Forrest’s son is killed, his younger son flees to sea, becomes a successful privateer, defeats pirates and rescues a merchant. At home, the elder Harding son and his wife endure service until his father’s sudden death leaves him the estate; the younger Forrest later wins a pardon, and the families reconcile.
This two-part chronicle play follows the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I. Part One recounts events leading to Elizabeth's accession. Part Two first follows haberdasher Hobson, his troublesome apprentice John Gresham, and the building of the Royal Exchange, then turns to Elizabeth's escape from an assassination plot and the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
This five-act tragicomedy links two household plots: the returning Young Geraldine and Wincott's wife pledge a future together, while servant Reignald schemes to conceal Young Lionell's drunken excesses from his returning merchant father.
Three wealthy brothers fall in love with Phyllis, who instead loves the indifferent Cripple of Fanchurch. Through disguises, forged letters and mistaken identities, Frank helps the Cripple while secretly pursuing Phyllis; after a sequence of mistaken proposals and kidnappings, she chooses Frank, and her father is arrested over a stolen diamond.
Tavern keeper Bess Bridges disguises herself to defeat a bully, then becomes a privateer when she believes her beloved Spencer has died. Her voyages take her to Morocco and Italy, where she outwits rulers and pirates and reunites with Spencer; across the second part, the couple navigate renewed danger and courtly schemes.
Four brothers, reduced to apprentices after their father's dispossession, join a crusade, become separated, and eventually reunite in Jerusalem, where they receive crowns and marriages.
In Lancashire during the 1633 witchcraft panic, supernatural disturbances overturn social order in local households. A sisterhood of witches disrupts a wedding, bewilders and humiliates the men, and attacks a mill; after evidence implicates the wife of the skeptical Master Generous, the women are arrested and the households are restored.
Princess Ariadne and her husband Radagon are cast adrift by her father Pheander, who falsely believes she is unchaste. Separated and living among shepherds under assumed identities, the couple and their grown son Eusanius fail to recognize one another as royal conflicts lead to battle. Their identities are revealed before father and son kill each other, restoring peace and uniting the three couples.
In Hoxton, dissolute young gentleman Robin Chartley courts a goldsmith’s daughter, then turns toward another woman. The aristocratic Luce, disguised as a page, and the Wise Woman orchestrate a web of disguises and mistaken marriages that steers the rival suitors toward a comic resolution.
In Milan and Florence, Julia becomes pregnant by the Prince of Parma before their marriage, while Stroza's lies drive the court into a series of mistaken accusations and attempted marriages. Banished Lauretta falls in love with the Prince of Florence; a plan to exchange places with Julia exposes Stroza's schemes and brings both couples to their intended partners.
When Frankford discovers that his wife Anne has had an affair with his friend Wendoll, he expels her to live apart rather than execute her, and eventually forgives her as she lies dying. A parallel plot follows the poverty-stricken Charles and Susan and Sir Francis's shift from vengeance to love.
A two-part Elizabethan history play follows Edward IV’s courtship of Jane Shore, her attempts to use her influence to obtain pardons, and her expulsion after Edward’s death under Richard III.
Two rural families’ fortunes reverse: the mild Forrests lose their wealth while the ruthless Hardings prosper. After Old Forrest’s son is killed, his younger son flees to sea, becomes a successful privateer, defeats pirates and rescues a merchant. At home, the elder Harding son and his wife endure service until his father’s sudden death leaves him the estate; the younger Forrest later wins a pardon, and the families reconcile.
This two-part chronicle play follows the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I. Part One recounts events leading to Elizabeth's accession. Part Two first follows haberdasher Hobson, his troublesome apprentice John Gresham, and the building of the Royal Exchange, then turns to Elizabeth's escape from an assassination plot and the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
This five-act tragicomedy links two household plots: the returning Young Geraldine and Wincott's wife pledge a future together, while servant Reignald schemes to conceal Young Lionell's drunken excesses from his returning merchant father.
Three wealthy brothers fall in love with Phyllis, who instead loves the indifferent Cripple of Fanchurch. Through disguises, forged letters and mistaken identities, Frank helps the Cripple while secretly pursuing Phyllis; after a sequence of mistaken proposals and kidnappings, she chooses Frank, and her father is arrested over a stolen diamond.
Tavern keeper Bess Bridges disguises herself to defeat a bully, then becomes a privateer when she believes her beloved Spencer has died. Her voyages take her to Morocco and Italy, where she outwits rulers and pirates and reunites with Spencer; across the second part, the couple navigate renewed danger and courtly schemes.
Four brothers, reduced to apprentices after their father's dispossession, join a crusade, become separated, and eventually reunite in Jerusalem, where they receive crowns and marriages.
In Lancashire during the 1633 witchcraft panic, supernatural disturbances overturn social order in local households. A sisterhood of witches disrupts a wedding, bewilders and humiliates the men, and attacks a mill; after evidence implicates the wife of the skeptical Master Generous, the women are arrested and the households are restored.
Princess Ariadne and her husband Radagon are cast adrift by her father Pheander, who falsely believes she is unchaste. Separated and living among shepherds under assumed identities, the couple and their grown son Eusanius fail to recognize one another as royal conflicts lead to battle. Their identities are revealed before father and son kill each other, restoring peace and uniting the three couples.
In Hoxton, dissolute young gentleman Robin Chartley courts a goldsmith’s daughter, then turns toward another woman. The aristocratic Luce, disguised as a page, and the Wise Woman orchestrate a web of disguises and mistaken marriages that steers the rival suitors toward a comic resolution.