The Unpublished Plays of Richard Cumberland

About this book

This volume contains the comedies, The Country Attorney and The School for Widows, variations on the theme of the ethics of inheritance. The two three-act comic operas that form a second set of plays demonstrate the power of the Lord Chamberlain's office in denying Richard II a license because of its treatment of the Peasant Revolt of 1381 and forcing the dramatic weakening of the play in the revision, The Armorer.