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gillothen's review against another edition
3.0
Written for the original Admiral's men; not quite so easy to work out which role Alleyn had. It retells relatively recent history, the story of a battle ten years before it was written in which the King of Portugal died, as did an Irish mercenary whose main intention had been to recover Ireland for the Catholics. In the middle of the play there is thus a scene in which he is warned repeatedly that God is clearly on Elizabeth's side and Britain is too tough to attack anyway. A few months after the Armada this would have gone down extremely well with a London audience!
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