Penitent Brothellers Grace, Sexuality, and Genre in Thomas Middleton's City Comedies

by Heller, Herbert Jack

• ISBN13: 9780874137019
• ISBN10: 0874137012
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Author Biography

Herbert Jack Heller is an Assistant Professor of English and the Humanities at Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Acknowledgments	11	(4)
Thomas Middleton, Calvinist Dramatist	15	(20)
Grace, Repentance, and Genre: A Mad World, My Masters, The Widow, and A Chase Maid in Cheapside	35	(54)
``Is it a tragedy plot, or a comedy plot, good mother?'': Repentance and Genre in Middleton Criticism	35	(12)
From Brothel to Once-III: Penitent's Paradigmatic Conversion in A Mad World, My Masters	47	(21)
``That he might read his actions i'th' event?'': The Patterns of Repentance	68	(8)
Sir Walter Whorehound's Anti-Tragic Repentance	76	(13)
Marrying the Whore: The Hosea Paradigm in A Trick to Catch the Old One and Other Plays	89	(15)
Sodomy, Salvation, and the Stage: Satires, Michaelmas Term, and The Roaring Girl	104	(77)
Unspoken Things in the Historical, Literary, and Critical Contexts	104	(12)
``Time was I loved Pyander Well'': The Wide Indication of Sodomy in Middleton's Satires	116	(9)
Undoing Sodomy: Richard Easy's Redemption in Michaelmas Term	125	(26)
Redeeming the Sodomite Stage in The Roaring Girl	151	(30)
Epilogue	181	(6)
Notes	187	(22)
Works Cited	209	(8)
Index	217