Durfey, Thomas | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Köster, Patricia. “Purcell's Swan Song: A Long Reverberation in Women's Fiction.” In Time, Literature and the Arts: Essays in Honor of Samuel L. Macey, edited by Thomas R. Cleary, pp. 140-56. Victoria, British Columbia: University of Victoria English Literary Studies, 1994.
Describes how a song from Durfey's Pills was used in several short stories in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Solomon, Harry M. “‘Difficult Beauty’: Tom D'Urfey and the Context of Swift's ‘The Lady's Dressing Room.’” Studies in English Literature 19, no. 3 (summer 1979): 431-44.
Argues that Swift's “The Lady's Dressing Room” was written to mock a poem written by Durfey.
Vaughn, Jack A. Preface to Two Comedies by Thomas D'Urfey, edited by Jack A. Vaughn, pp. 13-29. Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1976.
Contends that Durfey's dramatic...
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