The Mad Lover is a Jacobean-era stage play, a tragicomedy by John Fletcher that was initially published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647.Fletchers sole authorship of the play was specified during the seventeenth century by his friendMoreThe Mad Lover is a Jacobean-era stage play, a tragicomedy by John Fletcher that was initially published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647.Fletchers sole authorship of the play was specified during the seventeenth century by his friend Sir Aston Cockayne- since Fletchers distinctive pattern of stylistic and textual preferences is continuous through the text, his authorship is not questioned.(from Wikipedia)