This is, however, far from saying that it is not a very good example of the Davenant, Howard, Porter, Stapylton school of romantic tragi-comedy.

Love by accident, a tragi-farce, by Louis Marlow, pseud.

The Roman tragi-comedyafter the type of the -Amphitruo- of Plautuswas no doubt styled by the Roman literary historians -fabula Rhinthonica-; but the newer Attic comedians also composed such parodies, and it is difficult to see why the Ionians should have resorted for their translations to Rhinthon and the older writers rather than to those who were nearer to their own times.