TY - BOOK AU - Beaumont,Francis AU - Fletcher,John TI - The Mad Lover, a Tragi-Comedy: The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (3 of 10) AV - PR PY - 2011/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - English drama N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Lover; Release date is 2011-01-18; Produced by Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Mad Lover, a Tragi-Comedy" by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher is a tragicomedy written between 1616-1619. The play explores melancholia and madness through the story of Memnon, a general suffering from depression over unrequited love. His companions stage an elaborate masque featuring dancing beasts and trees—all formerly foolish lovers—in an attempt to cure his affliction. Drawing on the myth of Orpheus, the play exemplifies Fletcher's era's fascination with using music and theatrical spectacle to treat disorders of the mind and heart. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35000 ER -