Toy to Please Chaste Ladies, A

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Theatrical Provenance

Probable Genre(s)

Comedy (Harbage)

Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

References to the Play

Critical Commentary

For What It's Worth

Works Cited


Gurr, Andrew. Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company 1594-1625. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.



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