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 ...