Genre
Of Brome's sixteen extant plays (including The Late Lancashire Witches, his collaboration with Thomas Heywood), none are tragedies and only three are tragicomedies (the other two are The Queen's Exchange and The Queen and Concubine). The Lovesick Court is a "Fletcherian" tragicomedy; it resembles the tragicomedies of John Fletcher, perhaps most notably A King and No King, along with other plays in the same class, like Fletcher and Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen, and James Shirley's The Coronation and The Arcadia. The latter play accentuates the point that the influence of Sir Philip Sidney's The Arcadia can generally be observed in this type of Fletcherian drama.
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