Family of Love
Author: first_name: Lording
last_name: Barry
first_name: Thomas
last_name: Dekker
first_name: Thomas
last_name: Middleton
Language: English
Year: 1885

The Family of Love is an early Jacobean city comedy, first published in 1608. Published anonymously, the play was long attributed to Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, although more recent scholarship suggests that Lording Barry may be the sole author. The play satirises the supposed sexual lasciviousness of the Familia Caritatis or "Family of Love," the religious sect founded by Henry Nicholis in the 16th century.
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Maria is in love with Gerardine but her uncle, Glister the physicia