The Faithful Shepherdess

The Faithful Shepherdess is a Jacobean era stage play, the work that inaugurated the playwriting career of John Fletcher. Though the initial production was a failure with its audience, the printed text that followed proved significant, in that it contained Fletcher's influential definition of tragicomedy.

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Famous quotes containing the words faithful and/or shepherdess:

    Well meant are the wounds a friend inflicts, but profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
    Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 27:6.

    KJ translation reads: Faithful are the wounds of a friend.

    She walks—the lady of my delight—
    A shepherdess of sheep.
    Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;
    She guards them from the steep.
    Alice Meynell (1847–1922)