Richard Cumberland
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 480
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This volume contains the comedies, The Country Attorney and The School for Widows, variations on the theme of the ethics of inheritance. The two three-act comic operas that form a second set of plays demonstrate the power of the Lord Chamberlain's office in denying Richard II a license because of its treatment of the Peasant Revolt of 1381 and forcing the dramatic weakening of the play in the revision, The Armorer.