The Beggars’ Bush | The Beggars’ Bush

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Author: John Fletcher, Philip Massinger
First Published: 1647
Type of Work: Drama
Type of Plot: Romantic comedy
Time of Work: The Renaissance
Setting: The Netherlands
Principal Characters: Wolfort, Florez, Gerrard, Hubert, Hempskirke, Vandunke, Jaculin (Minche), Bertha
Genres: Satire, Drama, Comedy
Subjects: Love or romance, Marriage, Mistaken or secret identity, Robbery or robbers, Theft, Renaissance, Netherlands or Dutch people, Nobility
Locales: Netherlands

In its combination of the romantic and the rustic, THE BEGGARS’ BUSH is very much like AS YOU LIKE IT, although greatly inferior to it in other respects. Many of the staples of Elizabethan romance are present: nobility in disguise, a villainous usurper, and a contrast between the falsehood and sterility of the court on the one hand and the truth and beauty of the country on the other. The pastoral element is particularly noticeable, for it is in the forest that lovers are united, villains confounded, and men of true heart vindicated. Although the...

The Beggars’ Bush | The Beggars’ Bush

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