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 output, especially his comedies, should attract scholarly interest as works that reveal Restoration English tastes.

Additional coverage of Durfey's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 80; Literature Resource Center; Reference Guide to English Literature, ed. 2.