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:
“Then if my friendships break and bend,
There’s little need to cry
The while I know that every foe
Is faithful till I die.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“While that the sun with his beams hot
Scorched the fruits in vale and mountain,
Philon the shepherd, late forgot,
Sitting beside a crystal fountain,”
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