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The Chances
''The Chances'' is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher. It was one of Fletcher's great popular successes, "frequently performed and reprinted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."〔Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, eds., ''The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama,'' Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1978; p. 36.〕
The play's Prologue assigns the play to Fletcher alone; since his distinctive pattern of stylistic and textual features is continuous through the play, scholars and critics regard Fletcher's sole authorship as clear and unambiguous.
==Source and date==
For the plot of his play, Fletcher depended upon Miguel de Cervantes, one of his regular sources; ''The Chances'' borrows from "La Señora Cornelia," one of the ''Novelas ejemplares,'' first published in Spain in 1613 and translated into French in 1615. (Fletcher exploited another of the ''Novelas'' for his ''Love's Pilgrimage''.) The play must have originated between this period (scholars dispute Fletcher's knowledge of Spanish) and the dramatist's death in 1625. Current scholarship assigns the play to 1617 (it refers to Jonson's ''The Devil is an Ass,'' performed the previous year), as a work staged by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre.〔Andrew Gurr, ''The Shakespearean Stage, 1574–1642,'' Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992; p. 234.〕
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