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 probably all set together. Similarly, The Phoenix has six houses, all in Ferrara; and Michaelmas Term has five houses, all in London. On the other hand, although ''A Mad World, my Masters has only four houses, and A Trick to Catch the Old One'' seven, yet both these plays resemble Dekker's, in that the action is divided between London and one or more places in the country; and this, so far as it goes, seems to suggest settings on public theatre lines. I do not know whether Middleton wrote The Puritan, but I think that this play clearly had a continuous setting with only four houses, in London. And although Beaumont's Woman Hater requires