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| | §12. "Hymenaeus; Laelia". XII. University Plays. Vol. 6. The Drama to 1642, Part Two. The Cambridge History of ... |
 | | A more ingenious and skilful adaptation from the Italian than Victoria, though from The Decameron and not, from a play, is the anonymous Hymenaeus, acted at St. Johns, Cambridge, probably in March, 1578/9. |
 | | In Hymenaeus, the young wife is the daughter of an elderly father, with three suitorsa doctor, a drunken German, and a young Venetian whom she favours. |
 | | It is the Venetian who drinks the potion prepared by his rival, the doctor, for the heroines father, and who, in consequence, goes through a series of adventures which nearly ends on the gallows, before he succeeds in winning his mistresss hand. |
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