Lady Happy starts out as an incendiary firebrand but ends up by Act V. Scene iii barely speaking any lines (other than "What you Rogue, do you call me a fool). In fact she speaks through others. Thus, while the form of the play appears to be a comedy, is it in terms of our contemporary reading? Can we truly consider the silence of Lady Happy a comedic ending? What does Cavendish suggest by the marraige at the end? A reification of normalcy?
Further, is the Prince's time spent as a "woman" comedic in our terms? In the terms of Cavendish's audience?
How do we interpret the convent, with its peculiarity of exclusion? Can we make any comparisons between the convent of pleasure and "normal" convents?
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