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LHMP #347 Morgan-Russell 1999 No Good Thing Ever Comes Out of It


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Morgan-Russell, Simon. 1999. “’No Good Thing Ever Comes Out of It’: Male Expectation and Female Alliance in Dekker and Webster’s Westward Ho” in Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England edited by Susan Frye & Karen Robertson. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-511735-2

Morgan-Russell, Simon. “’No Good Thing Ever Comes Out of It’: Male Expectation and Female Alliance in Dekker and Webster’s Westward Ho

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The topic of this article involves the reputation that the town of Brentford had as a place of adulterous assignation for residents of London, and how the sexual sheanigans of a group of men in the early 17th c play “Westward Ho” were subverted by the women who were the target of their desire via a femal alliance to keep the upper hand. I just barely skimmed this, as it doesn’t have any identifiable relevance to the Project. Included only for completness’ sake.

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