Cicilia and Clorinda, or Love in Arms
A two-part tragicomedy in the romance tradition, exploring the Amazon or warrior-woman figure through heroic dialogue, adventure and sentiment.
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A two-part tragicomedy in the romance tradition, exploring the Amazon or warrior-woman figure through heroic dialogue, adventure and sentiment.
A Caroline tragicomedy in the courtly convention of Platonic love associated with Queen Henrietta Maria’s circle.
The Captain and his lover Mrs Wanton scheme to punish the Parson for abandoning his old friends after gaining a church benefice. They trick him into marrying Wanton and humiliate him, while the Captain and other companions manipulate two widows and their suitors into further marriages. The comedy satirizes sexual and religious hypocrisy through bawdy verbal wit.
In a fictionalized ancient Rome, captured Sicilian royals Facertes and Cicilia become entangled with Caesar’s children Virgilius and Sophia. A planned political marriage turns into love, while mistaken identities, slavery, rivalries and escape attempts complicate the young nobles’ path toward peace between Rome and Sicily.
In a romance of adventure set around Sardinia and the sea, pirate Gillipus enslaves nobles and kidnaps princesses.
During Carnival in Naples, Hellena, destined for a convent, pursues the naval captain Willmore, while Florinda tries to escape her brother's marriage plans and wed the English colonel Belville. Their entangled romantic and comic schemes culminate in marriages, as Willmore agrees to marry Hellena.
An English Royalist exile in Spain moves through a ten-act sequence of adventures, pursuing a liaison with courtesan Angellica while also forming a more conventional relationship with Serulina. The comedy follows his libertine conduct and contrasts it with the foolish pretensions of Edwardo.
A two-part tragicomedy in the romance tradition, exploring the Amazon or warrior-woman figure through heroic dialogue, adventure and sentiment.
A Caroline tragicomedy in the courtly convention of Platonic love associated with Queen Henrietta Maria’s circle.
The Captain and his lover Mrs Wanton scheme to punish the Parson for abandoning his old friends after gaining a church benefice. They trick him into marrying Wanton and humiliate him, while the Captain and other companions manipulate two widows and their suitors into further marriages. The comedy satirizes sexual and religious hypocrisy through bawdy verbal wit.
In a fictionalized ancient Rome, captured Sicilian royals Facertes and Cicilia become entangled with Caesar’s children Virgilius and Sophia. A planned political marriage turns into love, while mistaken identities, slavery, rivalries and escape attempts complicate the young nobles’ path toward peace between Rome and Sicily.
In a romance of adventure set around Sardinia and the sea, pirate Gillipus enslaves nobles and kidnaps princesses.
During Carnival in Naples, Hellena, destined for a convent, pursues the naval captain Willmore, while Florinda tries to escape her brother's marriage plans and wed the English colonel Belville. Their entangled romantic and comic schemes culminate in marriages, as Willmore agrees to marry Hellena.
An English Royalist exile in Spain moves through a ten-act sequence of adventures, pursuing a liaison with courtesan Angellica while also forming a more conventional relationship with Serulina. The comedy follows his libertine conduct and contrasts it with the foolish pretensions of Edwardo.