Paraphrasing a line from the Norton introduction to "Cheapside", sex is commodified through money throughout the play. In this alignment of sex and commerce, what might be represented by the many offspring cast as unwanted by-products of sex? (or at the opposite extreme, in the case of Sir Oliver and Lady Kix, wanted but unobtainable?)
What is the function of Hippolito tricking Bellafront into promising she would be his mistress and faithful only to him, only for Hippolito to respond "how many men / Have drunk this self-same protestation, / From that red 'ticing lip?"
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I'm curious as to how high the death-rate for Jacobean infants is, with medicine in its early stages and the plague hanging overhead. Do you think an especially high death-rate would inform the ways the children are portrayed on stage or the emotional relationships that real citizens might form with their children?
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