Love's Cruelty

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Love's Cruelty is a Caroline-era tragic play by James Shirley that explores themes of passion, betrayal, and moral corruption in a courtly setting.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Caroline-era play
stage play
tragedy
associatedWith Caroline court drama
author James Shirley
countryOfOrigin England
dramaticForm five-act play
dramaticMode tragedy of passion
dramaticStructure blank verse and prose
genre Jacobean and Caroline drama
tragedy
hasDramatist James Shirley
language English
literaryMovement English Renaissance drama
literaryPeriod Caroline era
partOf James Shirley canon
setting courtly setting
theatricalTradition English Renaissance theatre
theme betrayal
honour
jealousy
love
moral corruption
passion
revenge

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
James Shirley
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