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3 unusual facts about Richard Brome


Primo visto

listing both Primero and Primefisto, and the same occurs in a list of card games in Richard Brome's "The New Academy".

The Late Lancashire Witches

The Late Lancashire Witches is a Caroline era stage play, written by Thomas Heywood and Richard Brome, published in 1634.

The Wild Gallant

Critic Alfred Harbage argued that Richard Brome was the likely author of the work in its original form.


Matthew Concanen

In 1731 Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge produced The Jovial Crew, an opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew.

Monsieur Thomas

The 1639 quarto bears a commedatory poem written by Richard Brome, and an Epistle to Fletcher's admirer Charles Cotton, also signed by Brome.

Skimmington

The Late Lancashire Witches, a play by Thomas Howarth and Richard Brome, features a horseback skimmington ride prompted by a woman who seeks greater independence


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