Title: Charming if quaint read
Product review: This short play is a gem. Written for the then newly founded Provincetown Players, Two Slatterns and a King explores the irony of too-rapid selection of potential romantic partners. While exploring that theme the play follows many of the conventions of medieval morality plays by making the central villain personified Chance, who wreaks havoc on the life of a King who is on a quest to find the perfect mate. The King has determined that he will marry only a tidy, orderly woman and tours his land in search of his ideal. On this day, Chance causes a normally tidy woman to be beset with chaos (and untidiness) through no fault of her own, and Chance also inspires a slattern (lazy, messy woman) to have a whim to clean her home on one day only. The King of course in his hurry to come to a satisfactory conclusion misjudges both women. Chance leads him to take the hand of the utterly wrong person, and the moral of the story is not to judge character too quickly. A fun read.
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