Fair Maid of the West, The (Part 1)

Fair Maid of the West, The (Part 1)

    Alternative Title: A Girl Worth Gold

    Author: Thomas Heywood

    First Performance: c.1607

    Published: 1631

    Genre: Romantic com. in 5 acts; blank verse and prose

    Setting: Plymouth and Fowey, England; Fayal in the Azores, Morocco, and at sea, 1597

    Cast: 21m, 2f, extras

Bess Bridges, barmaid of the Castle Inn in Plymouth, is the toast of the town. She loves only Spencer, who is about to sail to the Azores to plunder Spanish wealth. Spencer is involved in a tavern brawl and, defending Bess's honour, kills a quarrelsome customer. Now forced to fly the country, he gives Bess the Windmill Tavern at Fowey. Here Bess is once again a great success. Her beloved Spencer, however, is mortally wounded in Fayal and sends his friend Goodlack to seek out Bess...

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