Influence
The playwright Thomas Killigrew drew upon Brome's The Novella for his Tomaso, or the Wanderer (1654). In the Restoration era, Aphra Behn borrowed from Tomaso for her play The Rover; when she was criticized for her derivativeness, Behn pointed out Killigrew's debt to Brome's play in her Postscript. (Behn was directly indebted to Brome for another work: her play The Debauchee is a rewrite of Brome's A Mad Couple Well-Match'd.)
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