He did this, reportedly, to reflect the optimism of the new Elizabethan Age. While equating the proverbial “man in the street” with the proclamation of a new queen might be considered an act ...

McArthur has taken a seldom-staged Elizabethan play by Thomas Heywood ... These themes don’t lose their bite, even when the scene shifts to Spain in the second act — and the pub-dwellers ...