A Jovial Crew

Jovial Crew, A

    Alternative Title: The Merry Beggars

    Author: Richard Brome

    First Performance: 1641, London

    Published: 1652

    Genre: Com. in 5 acts; prose and blank verse

    Setting: Mapledown, Kent, and the environs, at an indeterminate (late medieval?) period

    Cast: 22m, 4f, extras

Squire Oldrents, a charitable old gentleman, is made unhappy by a prophecy that his daughters will become beggars. He is also worried that his steward Springlove may return to his life as a vagabond. Indeed, in spring, when the beggars who have been sheltered by Oldrents over the winter take to the road again, not only are they joined by Springlove but also by Oldrents's two daughters and their sweethearts. Life as a beggar is not as romantic and free as the young people had dreamed. An eloping couple who...

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