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2 unusual facts about The Wild Gallant


The Wild Gallant

Critic Alfred Harbage argued that Richard Brome was the likely author of the work in its original form.

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Like the earliest works of many authors, and also like many other Restoration plays, The Wild Gallant is a derivative work: Dryden borrowed from several previous authors and plays, as far back as Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour (1599).



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