| Front | The Chances |
|---|---|
| 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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