Product Description

First staged at the original Globe in the early 1600's, this play remained unperformed until 1989, when it was presented at the restored Globe. One of the highlights both then as now is the scene which takes place in darkness but is actually performed in daylight.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1795994 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 100 pages

Customer Reviews

Light-hearted and highly entertaining!
In this Elizabethan romance, the scheming parents of Millisent Clare decide to break her engagement with Raymond Mounchensey, her true love, and instead marry her to the better-connected Frank Jerningham. When Millisent discovers her parents' plot, she informs Raymond and Frank. Frank, a good friend of Millisent and Raymond's, has a love of his own, and has no intention of playing the role prescribed for him by the Clare parents.

The trio, combining their daring with the abilities of the wizard Peter Fabel of Edmonton (a man so devious as to outwit the devil himself), set up a plan to rescue Raymond and Millisent's wedding. Along the way, though, there is magic, deception, flight, fog, drunken priests, frightened priests, and...romance!

This play was written at about the same time that Shakespeare was writing (about 1604), and was first attributed to the Bard about fifty years later. Now, however, it is generally considered to have been written by a different author, and has been moved into the Shakespeare "apocrypha."

However, even though it isn't true Shakespeare, it is still a rollicking good story, light-hearted and highly entertaining. If you like Shakespearean plays, then I recommend this play to you as another highly entertaining piece of Elizabethan entertainment!