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Penitent brothellers : grace, sexuality, and genre in Thomas Middleton's City comedies
- Title
- Penitent brothellers : grace, sexuality, and genre in Thomas Middleton's City comedies / Herbert Jack Heller.
- Author
- Heller, Herbert Jack, 1962-
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©2000.
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- Description
- 223 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Panitent Brothellers focuses on the recurring incidents of repentance and conversion in Thomas Middleton's major comedies. Panitent Brothel's conversion in a Mad World, My Masters and Sir Walter Whorehound's repentance in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside are familiar examples of behavior that, while having precedents with St. Augustine and St. Paul, had been newly described by Luther and Calvin." "This study emphasizes close readings of Middleton's city comedies to reveal the importance of repentance and conversion in his theology."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Middleton, Thomas, -1627 > Comedies
- Middleton, Thomas, -1627 > Religion
- Middleton, Thomas, -1627
- Middleton, Thomas
- 1600-1699
- City and town life in literature
- Christianity and literature > England > History > 17th century
- Christian drama, English > History and criticism
- Literary form > History > 17th century
- Grace (Theology) in literature
- Repentance in literature
- Calvinism in literature
- Sex in literature
- Comedy
- Christian drama, English
- Christianity and literature
- Humorous plays
- Literary form
- Literature
- Religion
- Sexualität
- Homosexualität
- Prostitution
- Komedies
- Engels
- Genade
- Spijt
- Calvinisme
- Komödie
- London (England) > In literature
- England
- England > London
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Thomas Middleton, Calvinist Dramatist -- 2. Grace, Repentance, and Genre: A Mad World, My Masters, The Widow, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. "Is it a tragedy plot, or a comedy plot, good mother?": Repentance and Genre in Middleton Criticism. From Brothel to Once-Ill: Penitent's Paradigmatic Conversion in A Mad World, My Masters. "That he might read his actions i'th' event?": The Patterns of Repentance. Sir Walter Whorehound's Anti-Tragic Repentance -- 3. Marrying the Whore: The Hosea Paradigm in : A Trick to Catch the Old One and Other Plays -- 4. Sodomy, Salvation, and the Stage: Satires, Michaelmas Term, and The Roaring Girl. Unspoken Things in the Historical, Literary, and Critical Contexts.
- ISBN
- 0874137012
- 9780874137019
- LCCN
- 99048813
- OCLC
- ocm42476642
- 42476642
- SCSB-14693759
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library