Word: abound
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This play is probably the most interesting and best constructed of Jonson's works. The plot is outlined with clearness and amusing situations abound. The story concerns itself with the winning of an inheritance and the schemes employed to obtain the fortune are most ingenious. A nephew seeking his uncle's riches procures a silent woman, really a youth, to wed his uncle. The conclusion finds the nephew the accepted heir. The scene of the play is laid in London...
...somewhat lacking in the second which, however, is enlivened by specialties, a burlesque on Robespierre and several dances full of spirit and movement. The burlesque, though clever, will need cutting down; the act indeed would not lose by the omission of the quintette. The surprising and unexpected situations which abound in the play carry it along and give it great interest. In itself the play has but little plot and the book is of slight worth, but few Pudding plays have had such good music. The words too of the songs are wonderfully good. Undoubtedly the best figure...