The Fair Penitent appears earlier in "Don Quixote" by Cervantes. In this story Lothario is urged by his lifelong friend Anselmo to attempt to seduce his wife in order to test her faithfulness. At first most unwilling he eventually enters into the scheme with skill and success. This earlier Lothario is a successful seducer. Malcolm Goldstein edited "The Fair Penitent" for a modern edition in 1969. Critics, both traditional and modern, have debated whether Calista is actually "penitent" for her infidelity. The Fair Penitent The Fair Penitent is Nicholas Rowe's stage adaptation of the tragedy "The Fatal Dowry," the Philip Massinger and Nathan
The America Play play so that she could “make history.” She does this, in part, by criticizing and drawing attention to The Great Hole in History. Be Your Own Person, Write Your Own Story Parks never gave a real name for the main character, he was only ever referred to as the Foundling Father or the Lesser Known to the Great Man. What she was trying to show here was that he was not supposed to be given a name in the play because he was living in someone else's shoes(Abraham Lincoln). Throughout the whole play, all he did was act as Abraham