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Up to The Honest Whore, Part One by Thomas Dekker. The Shoemaker's Holiday was a delightful read.
Nov 16, 2021 04:55PM
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Up to The Broken Heart by John Ford. I read A New Way to Pay Old Debts earlier this year, and this will be a duplicate of what I read last year. But that's how it goes. Anyway, I was hardly upset at having the chance to reread Massinger's brilliant play.
Dec 27, 2021 03:12PM
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Nullifidian
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Up to A New Way to Pay Old Debts by Philip Massinger, but first I'll read The Birth of Merlin, or the Child Hath Found Its Father by William Rowley from The Shakespeare Apocrypha edited by C. F. Tucker Brooke, since the anthology doesn't include a solo play by Rowley.
Dec 23, 2021 09:55PM
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Nullifidian
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Finished A Trick to Catch the Old One by Thomas Middleton, which was absolutely hilarious and delightful. I love Middleton's comedies. Now up to The Changeling by Middleton and William Rowley, after which I'll read Rowley's The Birth of Merlin in The Shakespeare Apocrypha. Then there will be only three more plays until the end of this book.
Dec 19, 2021 12:33AM
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Nullifidian
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Up to A Trick to Catch the Old One by Thomas Middleton.
Dec 17, 2021 01:58AM
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Up to The White Devil by John Webster, who wrote my favorite early modern play that isn't by Shakespeare, The Duchess of Malfi.
Dec 12, 2021 01:24PM
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Nullifidian
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Up to The Wild-Goose Chase by John Fletcher.

About The Maid's Tragedy, I wonder what their first audience thought of the scene in the fifth act where the King awakes after having been tied up by Evadne and he thinks it's a sex game. Was BDSM practiced frequently enough for the audience to understand the implications? If it were, it's certainly an insight into the sexual mores of early modern England.
Dec 12, 2021 10:56AM
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Nullifidian
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Up to The Maid's Tragedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.
Dec 11, 2021 11:28PM
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Up to Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. And I'd just like to say that Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle is one of the greatest plays ever written. Utterly hilarious and brilliantly metatheatrical. It's no surprise that it failed when it was initially given, because a play that breaks the fourth wall in the first 30 seconds was too weird for his era.
Dec 08, 2021 07:32AM
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Up to The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont.
Nov 21, 2021 01:19PM
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Nullifidian
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Up to The Honest Whore, Part Two by Thomas Dekker. Next will be the plays by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher that I've been longing to reread (The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Beaumont, Philaster and The Maid's Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, and The Wild-Goose Chase by Fletcher).
Nov 21, 2021 12:38AM
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