The Humorous Lieutenant

The Humorous Lieutenant, also known as The Noble Enemies, Demetrius and Enanthe, or Alexander's Successors,[1] is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by John Fletcher. Highly praised by critics, it has been called "Fletcher's best comedy."[2]

The drama was initially published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647.

  1. ^ Hazlitt, p. 289.
  2. ^ Clifford Leech, quoted in Logan and Smith, p. 40.