The work's prologue announces that "New plays and maidenheads are near akin," and the play itself opens with a procession of Hymen, after which three queens in black come to ask the king for help in recovering the bodies of their husbands.
The work's prologue announces that "New plays and maidenheads are near akin," and the play itself opens with a procession of Hymen, after which three queens in black come to ask the king for help in recovering the bodies of their husbands. Published in the 1679 folio of works by Beaumont and Fletcher, it first appeared in association with its better known author in Charles Knight's 1841 "Pictorial Shakespeare" edition. FTP, identify this 1613 play about Palamon and Arcite, a retelling of Chaucer's Knight's Tale.
The work's prologue announces that "New plays and maidenheads are near akin," and the play itself opens with a procession of Hymen, after which three queens in black come to ask the king for help in recovering the bodies of their husbands.
The {Two Noble Kinsmen}