Critical Responses
The manifold problems about Love's Cure inevitably complicate the scholarly and critical response to the play. It is hard to say what the play reveals about Fletcher's dramaturgic artistry when his participation in the project is so clouded by uncertainty — one critic even referring to Fletcher's "collaboration with the dead". The play's strong theme of gender and sexuality, though, has attracted modern commentators on the subject.
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