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The Humorous Lieutenant

The Humorous Lieutenant, also known as The Noble Enemies, Demetrius and Enanthe, or Alexander's Successors, is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by John Fletcher. Highly praised by critics, it has been called "Fletcher's best comedy."The drama was initially published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647.


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“Let no man fear to die: We love to sleep all,
And death is but the sounder sleep.”

Act III, scene 6.
The Humorous Lieutenant (c. 1619; published 1647)

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