Margarita, a wealthy Spanish lady, wants a husband docile enough to let her live as she pleases, and chooses Leon, a soldier who seems a simpleton. Once married, he turns out to have ideas of his own. In the subplot the boastful Michael Perez, the Copper Captain, is cheated by the clever Estifania.
A Jacobean comedy that stayed in the repertory for well over a century, for readers of early English drama. Download the free EPUB.