Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Convent of Pleasure

The revelation that the Princess is actually a prince, and Lady Happy's union with him, returns the play's world to a state of normalcy. The homoerotic tensions are resolved (at least somewhat) by having the supposedly gay lovers turn out to be heterosexual lovers after all. What does such an ending mean for the bulk of the play, which was spent meditating on the problems with male-female relationships and marriage?

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