1.) Does Bell in Campo really celebrate female independence? Lady Victoria and her army of women warriors explicitly reject a male-dominated gender hierarchy, but it seems that they then go on to assert control by simply reproducing and laying claim to traditionally masculine gender attributes. Are these "Amazons," then, celebrating a uniquely female collective, or are they implicitly asserting the value for either biological sex of being gendered male by attempting to "out-man" the men? Do their actions and other characters' reactions to them ultimately destabilize or validate a male-dominated order?

2.) What is going on with the smaller costumed dramas within The Convent of Pleasure? How does their seeming reassertion of heterosexual patterns of desire affect the larger narrative of the play?