sentences:  Each of these plays exploits the idea of a woman who wants her suitor to kill his best friend in a duel.The play is set in France during the reign of Charles VIII; Massinger exploits Charles's actual reputation as a pleasure-loving and sybaritic monarch to create the mood for his romantic comedy.In the opening scene, the aristocratic heroine Bellisant is being reproved by her former guardian, a nobleman name Chamont.