Kept women, comic clerics, and political schemers enliven the four plays in this volume of the California Dryden. Dryden asserted that The Kind Keeper was a moral play, dedicated to exposing the "crying sin" of keeping a mistress. The production was closed after three nights, but whether because of the play's success in moralizing, or in exposing, is hard to know.
"The Kind Keeper" is a moral play, dedicated to exposing the "crying sin" of keeping a mistress. "The Spanish Fryar" is a comedy expressing outspoken antipathy to Spain and Catholicism. "The Duke of Guise" claims that opposition to the Stuarts was dangerous. "Vindication" is an expose of his art.
