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The article focuses on the book "The Maid of Honour" and play "The Roman Actor" by Philip Massinger which may have remembered and taken inspiration. It mentions Peter Beal's discovery of a prologue to the play in 1980 that seriously questioned the dating of Massinger's tragicomedy and tended to repeat some phrases and words over and over. It also mentions Senator Junius Rusticus complains about the immorality of Rome under Domitian.