|
|
Article: Penitent Brothellers: Grace, Sexuality, and Genre in Thomas Middleton's City Comedies.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 Modern Humanities Research Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Penitent Brothellers: Grace, Sexuality, and Genre in Thomas Middleton's City Comedies. By HERBERT JACK HELLER. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 223 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]; $43.50. ISBN 0-87413-701-2.
This book fills a gap in the criticism of Middleton's city comedies by indicating the religious context of their outwardly secular concerns, offering to correct critics' representations of Middleton as a poet of material and materialist life. Heller replaces materialist literalism with a rather precarious literalism of a theological kind. Foregrounding the diagnosis of authorial belief, he argues that Middleton ...