Jan 1, 2010

The Rover | Summary

Prologue
The prologue in rhyming couplets portends a play that is not just ‘‘good conversation’’, as conventional plays present, but is full of "wit" and "deboches" [debauches], as is life.

Act I
The scene untraditionally opens on two women. Sisters Hellena and Florinda are discussing love, which the younger sister Hellena wants to experience before her brother sends her to a nunnery, and Florinda coyly tells about her beau, an English colonel. They are interrupted by their brother, Don Pedro, who announces that, to prevent...