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==Critical responses==
The play's prominence in theatrical history has won it the attention of scholars and critics.<ref>Neill, pp. 73–99.</ref><ref>Smith, Strier, and Bevington, pp. 183–208.</ref> Some of the criticism has been favourable; one editor judged it "a highly finished, integrated piece of work, with everything handsomely symmetrical about it."<ref>Muriel St. Claire Byrne, quoted in Logan and Smith, pp. 96–7.</ref> Yet critics have not been shy about finding faults; one called Sir Giles Over-reach "the character whom his author could not control."<ref>D. J. Enright, quoted in Logan and Smith, p. 97.</ref> Massinger's blending of lighter dramatic materials, like comedy of intrigue, with the play's more serious aspects, has also been faulted.<ref>Alexander Leggatt, cited in Logan and Smith, p. 96.</ref>