John Fletcher's "The Wild Goose Chase" is a lively and well-constructed comedy from the late Jacobean era, first performed in 1621. The play's wit and urbanity are recognized for anticipating and influencing Restoration comedy.
John Fletcher's "The Wild Goose Chase" is a lively and well-constructed comedy from the late Jacobean era, first performed in 1621. The play's wit and urbanity are recognized for anticipating and influencing Restoration comedy.
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| Back | The Wild Goose Chase is a late Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher, first performed in 1621. It is often classed among Fletcher's most effective and best-constructed plays; Edmund Gosse called it "one of the brightest and most coherent of Fletcher's comedies, a play which it is impossible to read and not be in a good humour." The drama's wit, sparkle, and urbanity anticipated and influenced the Restoration comedy of the later decades of the seventeenth century. The term "wild-goose chase" is first documented when used by Shakespeare in the early 1590s, but appears as a term with which his audience would be familiar, as there is no attempt to define its meaning. |
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