This five-act play is a pull-out-all-the-stops fairy tale to honor Vassar College on its jubilee. The writing is by turns light-hearted and pathetic. The genius evident in poems she had written by this time is not on display, unless her descriptions of the sports activities the two young women Beatrice and Bianca share (rowing, riding, tennis) really are—as I suspect—full of Shakespeare-worthy double entendres. ( )

This is light drama written early in Edna St. Vincent Millay's career, in a medieval setting about the love of two stepsisters. (Given Millay, it's easy to read lesbian love into the play, but it's purely Platonic on the surface and immediately subsurface.) I don't count it as great drama, but it was an easy read.

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