All Fools

"[1] "Chapman certainly wrote no comedy in which an ingenious and well-managed plot combined so harmoniously with personages so distinctly conceived and so cleverly and divertingly executed.

"[2] All Fools entered the historical record when the Children of the Queen's Revels performed the play at Court before King James I on 1 January 1605.

"[4] Some critics interpret these as two successive titles for an earlier version of All Fools, played by Henslowe's Admiral's Men at the Rose in 1599, and later revised for the Children of the Queen's Revels at Blackfriars.

(A sonnet dedicating the play to Sir Thomas Walsingham, which was printed in 1825 in an edition prepared by the noted literary forger John Payne Collier and preserved nowhere else, is now generally considered a fake.

Valerio has received the education appropriate to a young gentleman, though his father keeps him down on the farm, busy with the tasks of husbandry; and Bellomora is secluded at home.

He cooks up a further plan, to send Gratiana to the house of her "father-in-law" Marc Antonio, to prevent Fortunio from being "cuckolded" in his (non-existent) marriage.

The outcome is that once the full story comes out at the end of the play, Valerio has gained his father's public blessing of his marriage with Gratiana.

The play has a subplot on the topic of male jealousy: Cornelio is irrationally and excessively jealous of his faithful wife Gazetta, and quarrels with the man he thinks is her lover.