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casparb's review against another edition
2.0
Only hacked at The Busybody and it was , fine. 2.5. It's an overfamiliar framework by this point, surely. Dramatically it is what we call the 'nothing special'.
The play shines occasionally- there was a whole sequence involving a monkey I enjoyed, and Miranda's lines are fairly reliably good. The girlboss moments are what rescue this from being a pure factory-farm drama.
The epilogue seems to imply Marplot was the protagonist and honestly what on earth. He was unique, perhaps, but seemed to exist only to get in the way and extend the play.
The play shines occasionally- there was a whole sequence involving a monkey I enjoyed, and Miranda's lines are fairly reliably good. The girlboss moments are what rescue this from being a pure factory-farm drama.
The epilogue seems to imply Marplot was the protagonist and honestly what on earth. He was unique, perhaps, but seemed to exist only to get in the way and extend the play.
pixieauthoress's review against another edition
4.0
"The Innocent Mistress" - I think this is my favourite of the EN2004 plays so far. Our tutor told us to start reading it way in advance of the tutorial as it had a confusing plot, but I didn't find it too challenging once I remembered all of the characters' names. There were three storylines that interwove, but thankfully years of reading romance novels has taught me to deal with multiple plots! :) This was a very entertaining read, but it had a rather pessimistic view of marriage and commitment that made for an unsettling resolution to one of the sub-plots. 8/10
julia_roxxanne's review against another edition
3.0
Not terribly outstanding or ingenious, but light and fun. I think my favorite was "The Busybody".
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