Old Flowerdale returns from Venice in disguise to watch how his son spends the allowance left him. Young Flowerdale borrows, lies and schemes to marry Luce, the daughter of Sir Lancelot Spurcock of Kent, for her money. The comedy moves between London streets, a Croydon inn and a Kentish country house.
Printed in 1605 as by William Shakespeare, it now belongs to the Shakespeare Apocrypha and repays readers curious about the Jacobean stage. Download the free EPUB.