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Howard’s analysis of Westward Ho complicates still more the incomplete process of naturalization of the foreign through its presentation of the penetrability of urban households through commerce with whorehouses by husbands and wives, not just gallants. The Italian London merchant, who combines an excessive fear of cuckoldry by his English wife with a promotion of cuckoldry in others through his disguise as Parenthesis, the penman, threatens and restores a precarious marital fidelity. Howard argues cogently for the many kinds of intercourse, the ongoing inclusions and exclusions, that, emanating from within as well as from without, determined which contending characteristics and signs, habits and morals were coming to be considered English.
32–36). So is the fool Passarello’s licentious wit with his master’s lady. The Alchemist features canting in the elaborate jargons not only of alchemy but also of astrology, dueling, puritan preaching, and biblical exegesis. ” Despite its nonce word “freshwoman,” A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, as typical of Middleton, does not display neologisms, Latinate diction, or nominalizations. But it offers more than its share of his characteristic bawdry. Its salacious talk is notorious through critical introductions, ranging from the characters’ names (Moll to Whorehound, Touchwood to Kix, and Underman) to the Puritans’ incessant double entendres at the christening.
42–44). 36 / Rhetorical Readings, Dark Comedies, and Shakespeare’s Problem Plays In between, trying to bridge the breach Octavia implores Antony by exemplifying intensively the import of his chiasmus with her own. How can she pray, since begging success for one annuls success for the other and mocks her? 18–20). Besides reversals by negation or contradiction, the figure can also contrast by degree and thereby take on more shades of meaning. 9–10). 23–24). 52–53). Thus chiasmus, like other schemes and tropes, may increase enormously in complexity.