The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume IV

Book IV, ch. vi-viii. Read, Dunlop, and Hazlitt all had express’d the

same opinion. The Spanish tale turns upon the fact of Anselmo, the Curious Impertinent, enforcing his friend Lothario to tempt his wife Camilla. Such a theme, however, is common, and with variations is to be found in Italian novelle. Recent authorities are inclined to suggest that the plot of Beaumont and Fletcher...