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The aging personification of Summer summons the officers of his realm to account before making his will. Personified seasons and figures from pastoral and court life frame a morality-play allegory with satire, song and spectacle, bridging the interlude and masque traditions.
A lost satirical comedy performed at the Swan Theatre in 1597 and rapidly suppressed by authorities for allegedly seditious and slanderous matter. Its surviving historical record does not establish the precise targets or plot.
The aging personification of Summer summons the officers of his realm to account before making his will. Personified seasons and figures from pastoral and court life frame a morality-play allegory with satire, song and spectacle, bridging the interlude and masque traditions.
A lost satirical comedy performed at the Swan Theatre in 1597 and rapidly suppressed by authorities for allegedly seditious and slanderous matter. Its surviving historical record does not establish the precise targets or plot.