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Whether for love or ambition, for parental approval or reasons of state, marriage has complicated the lives of all who enter into it. First performed in 1671, Dryden's Marriage ̉ la Mode portrays the motives high and low that make marriage the pivotal institution of a nation. Like Dryden's best tragicomedies, Marriage a la Mode has a double plot. The hopes that marriage excites and the regrets it suffers, the possibilities it opens and the opportunities...
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The title character is Captain Manly, a sailor who doubts the motives of everyone he meets except for his sweetheart, Olivia, and his friend, Vernish. When Olivia jilts him and marries Vernish, he attempts to gain revenge by sending a pageboy (who, unknown to him, is a girl in disguise and is in love with him) to seduce Olivia. When the truth of the page's identity is discovered, Manly marries her instead.
20) The rover
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Written in two parts with multiple plot lines, The Rover, or, The Banish't Cavaliers, deals with the adventures of a group of love-struck Englishmen in Naples, during Carnival, a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women-- from convent girls to courtesans-- take the initiative. Aphra Behn's play explores issues of love, trickery and deception, forced marriage, male power, fidelity, and the excesses...
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