The Honest Whore, Part I (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker
- First Published: 1604
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragi-comedy
- Time of Work: Sixteenth century
- Setting: Milan, Italy
- Principal Characters: Gasparo Trebazzi, Infelice, Count Hippolito, Matheo, Candido, VIola, Fustigo, Bellafront
- Genres: Satire, Drama, Tragicomedy
- Subjects: Love or romance, Gambling, Marriage, Prostitution or prostitutes, Adultery, Sixteenth century, Italy or Italians, Nobility, Feuds
- Locales: Italy, Milan, Italy
Critique:
Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Dekker was an extremely prolific writer, working often in collaboration with other playwrights. From a passage in Henslowe’s diary, it is known that Middleton had a hand in Part One of this play; but scholars are uncertain as to the precise amount that he contributed. The main plot, as will be seen, has a strangely inverted resemblance to that of ROMEO AND JULIET, while the subplot, although the scene is laid in Milan, gives a realistic glimpse of London shop life of that time. Both plots are, by modern standards, exaggerated and...
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