Southerne, Thomas - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
BIOGRAPHY
Jordan, Robert and Love, Harold, eds. The Works of Thomas Southerne, 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
Collection of Southerne's works that includes a biography of the dramatist as well as introductory notes to his plays.
CRITICISM
Drougge, Helga. “‘We'll learn that of the Men’: Female Sexuality in Southerne's Comedies.” Studies in English Literature 33 (summer 1993): 545-63.
Expores themes of female sexuality in three of Southerne's plays: Sir Anthony Love, The Wives' Excuse, and The Maid's Last Prayer.
Kaul, Suvir. “Reading Literary Symptoms: Colonial Pathologies and the Oroonoko Fictions of Behn, Southerne, and Hawkesworth.” Eighteenth-Century Life 18 (November 1994): 80-96.
Compares thematic variations in Aphra Behn's, John Hawkesworth's, and Southerne's versions of the story of Oroonoko.
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