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3.15 AVERAGE
3.15 AVERAGE
I really didn't like this play. It was hard to understand without help, and the characters were hard to follow.
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This play is 80% sex jokes with the occasional possibly serious moment that has you questioning if you’re reading the right thing. It was entertaining and got a few laughs out of me, but it doesn’t really do much more than that. I can imagine it would be fun to see a performance of it though.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
Early modern plays are like 5 drunk plot lines sort of overlapping and then completely converging at the end and this is no different. It's a prime example. Idk, did playwrights think people would get bored if there was not Literally So Much Happening all the time?
Anyway, not terribly hard to understand (ish) ((once I read through the lens of Wikipedia)) and generally kind of funny and not the worst. At least there's a happy ending?
If I had a nickel for every time I've read an early modern play where characters leapt out of coffins and then got married immediately after I would have two nickels.
Anyway, not terribly hard to understand (ish) ((once I read through the lens of Wikipedia)) and generally kind of funny and not the worst. At least there's a happy ending?
Jacobean city comedy about the moral debauchery of London. quite funny. lots to say about the depictions of cuckolding and the wittol figure as potentially subversive and an almost always base figure in early modern england. critiques of nascent capitalism, religion, etc. are really interesting.
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Very Middleton themes of corruption, avarice, promiscuity, but a lively and entertaining piece with much to enjoy. In many ways a classic City comedy, with gullible country boys and city matrons of dubious honour, with some inevitable misogyny for good measure, but this romps along well and has a great deal of comic value.