Here again is Middleton and another comedy with the main character being a strong woman. It involves the regular devices of dressing as a man and having a woman fall in love with this "boyish" man and then marrying said man. This play, as many had two plots going on, had another plot where a brother, having never met his sister, coincidentally marries her. The two plots involved a sister marrying a brother and two women marrying each other. Though this lay couldn't end with such taboos going on, so the sister wasn't really a sister but a child switched at birth, and the woman dressed as a man reveals herself.
I must admit that I wasn't really impressed with this play, and maybe it is because I have been reading too many Jacobean comedies, and I am not really a fan of reading comedies and more of a fan of watching them.
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