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Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune

Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune,
an anonymous play, first performed c.1582 and published in 1589. Similarities between this work and Shakespeare's late plays, in particular Cymbeline and The Tempest, have suggested that the Rare Triumphs may have been revived on the Jacobean stage. Its enduring appeal is suggested by its fifteen reprints between 1610 and 1670. Like the Rare Triumphs, Cymbeline features the separation of lovers through banishment and their reconciliation by Jupiter. Bomelio, an exiled courtier turned magician who lives in a cave and whose magic books are stolen, may be a prototype of Prospero.

Jane Kingsley-Smith

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