"A Cure for a Cuckold" shares a complex inter-relationship with a set of other plays of its era, including Marston's "The Dutch Courtesan," Beaumont and Fletcher's "The Scornful Lady," Fletcher and Massinger's "The Little French Lawyer," and Massinger's "The Parliament of Love".Since "A Cure for a Cuckold" is later than most, perhaps all, of these plays, it likely represents the cumulative influence of a skein of dramatic development winding through them, centring on the plot of a woman who wants her lover to duel with and kill his best friend.