Critical Responses
Critics generally do not place Fletcher's play in the first rank of English Renaissance tragedies; the play has been criticized for "its disunity of plot, structural faults, and support of tyranny...." But the play has been considered influential on the Restoration tragedy that followed.
Modern critics have discussed the play's politics and sexual violence.
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