The composition of The Senseless Counterfeit has now reached Act 4 Sc iii, which comprises the stock Jacobean conceit of the play-within-the-play, in which the malefactor's wrongdoing is exposed. The play in question rejoices in the name of The Dogger's Dinner, and is loosely based on Daniel Auber's opera The Masked Ball.
In the next minutes, I'm going to publish another extract from the SC on this blog.
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