Project Gutenberg 2005-01-01 Public domain in the USA. 75 Fletcher, John 1579 1625 Fletcher, Iohn Flecher, John Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) Reading ease score: 87.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Paul Murray and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife" by John Fletcher is a comedy play written during the late 16th to early 17th century. The play revolves around themes of love, marriage, and the playful dynamics between men and women, focusing on characters like the comedic Juan de Castro and his compatriots who explore relationships in a humorous light. The opening of the play introduces various characters discussing the troubles of recruitment for war and the prospects of marriage, especially regarding the wealthy heiress Donna Margarita. The scene kicks off with a conversation between Colonel Juan de Castro and his friend Michael Perez about military affairs and their romantic interests. Soon, two veiled ladies enter, setting the stage for a series of interactions that juxtapose military bravado with the intrigue of courtship. As characters express their desires and frustrations—especially concerning women’s pride and wealth—the groundwork is laid for the ensuing dramatic entanglements and comedic misunderstandings surrounding love and the roles of husbands and wives. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Drama Comedies PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Performing Arts/Film Browsing: Fiction 222936 220984 2024-10-06T13:29:04.366762 2023-09-07T04:04:41.677464 text/html text/html 221749 2020-12-19T01:46:18 text/html; charset=us-ascii 58500 2020-12-19T01:46:19 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 131899 2024-10-06T13:29:15.308721 application/epub+zip 133389 2024-10-06T13:29:08.690731 application/epub+zip 122408 2024-10-06T13:29:07.023735 application/epub+zip 329175 2024-10-06T13:29:18.710705 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 302861 2024-10-06T13:29:13.975736 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 280063 2022-09-07T17:04:10.918194 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 158264 158187 2024-10-06T13:29:02.713766 2023-09-07T04:04:40.274506 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 158256 2020-12-19T01:46:19 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 52823 2020-12-19T01:46:19 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19763 2024-10-06T13:29:18.853676 application/rdf+xml 16675 2024-10-06T13:29:07.621739 image/jpeg 4144 2024-10-06T13:29:07.317750 image/jpeg 131943 2024-10-06T13:29:04.382768 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia