"The Chances" is a comedy by John Fletcher (1647), adapted from a novel by Cervantes, detailing the romantic coincidences and complications faced by Constantia and the Duke of Ferrara. It is noted for containing some of Fletcher's best writing.
John Fletcher's 1647 comedy, 'The Chances,' based on a Cervantes novel, follows the coincidental and complicated romantic entanglements of Constantia and the Duke of Ferrara. It is considered one of Fletcher's most successful plays.
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| Back | a comedy John Fletcher 1647 based on a novel by Cervantes The Chances are the coincidences and complications that beset Constantia and the duke of Ferrara when they decide to flop others concerned are Vecchio, a wizard, Dame Gilligan, the hostess , and two Spanish gallants , Don John and Don Frederic the play contains some of Fletcher's best writing The Chances is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher. It was one of Fletcher's great popular successes, "frequently performed and reprinted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."[1] The play's Prologue assigns the play to Fletcher alone; since his distinctive pattern of stylistic and textual features is continuous through the play, scholars and critics regard Fletcher's sole authorship as clear and unambiguous. |
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