A character in this play keeps interrupting a scene to complain that the cook is refusing to stuff the venison with dumplings or serve woodcocks with buttered toast. This play opens with a character being evicted from a tavern, whose tavern keeper and wife have been bribed to turn him out. Another character in this play leaves the name of the groom
A character in this play keeps interrupting a scene to complain that the cook is refusing to stuff the venison with dumplings or serve woodcocks with buttered toast. This play opens with a character being evicted from a tavern, whose tavern keeper and wife have been bribed to turn him out. Another character in this play leaves the name of the groom blank on a letter that commands that his daughter be married by a priest in Gotham, thus allowing her to marry the page of the lord who pretends to be wooing her. The villain in this play is aided by the fat, corrupt justice-of-the-peace Greedy, but betrayed by his sidekick, the lawyer Jack Marall, who aids the schemes of Tom and Lady Allworth. For 10 points, name this play in which Frank Wellborn saves himself from the financial ruin thrust upon him by his uncle, Sir Giles Overreach, a Jacobean comedy by Philip Massinger.