The Dark Comedy. The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy

1963 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Laurence Kitchin ◽  
J. L. Styan
Keyword(s):  
Dark Comedy

Pudd'N Head Wilson as Dark Comedy

ELH ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Clark Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Dark Comedy

Daisy Miller: A Dark Comedy of Manners (review)

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-102
Author(s):  
Mary Doyle Springer
Keyword(s):  
Dark Comedy ◽  
Comedy Of Manners

The Dark Comedy: The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy

1964 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-503
Author(s):  
A. S. Downer
Keyword(s):  
Dark Comedy

scholarly journals Proximity and the Pox: Pathologizing Infidelity in Marston’s Dutch Courtesan

Early Theatre ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Fleck
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Infection ◽  
Transmitted Infection ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Religious Doctrine ◽  
Dark Comedy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Early Modern London ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

Marston’s Dutch Courtesan links the dangers of sexually transmitted infection and false religious doctrine, both spread by the Family of Love. The play finds dark comedy in the syphilis epidemic that urban sexual promiscuity perpetuated and in ridiculous religious heterodoxy. Both seem to thrive on infidelity. By making the tavern-owning Mulligrubs, the sex worker Franceschina, and her bawd Mary Faugh members of the Family of Love, Marston makes the corporeal dangers of illicit sex during an epidemic even more dangerous when its companion is the contagion of Familism, threatening to spread as efficiently as the syphilis ravaging early modern London.

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