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Changeling Beatrice De Flores Subplot Antonio Tragedy Thomas

Front The Changeling
Back a tragedy
Thomas Middleton
1622
Beatrice Joanna, daughter of the governor of Alicante, loves Alsemero
in order to avoid her arranged marriage to Alonzo she enlists the dangerous support of her father's physically repulsive servant, de Flores
bound together to the end , Beatrice Joanna and de Flores kill themselves
the subplot concerns the efforts of Antonio to seduce Isabella, the wife of an old and jealous doctor who runs a lunatic asylum
Antonio is the changeling of subplot and Beatrice, in a subtler sense, is of the main plot

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