Mythologizing the Middle Class: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and the Urban Bourgeoisie

By Valerie L. Jephson, Bruce Thomas Boehrer

This paper examines the strategies through which John Ford's play validates an image of the rising urban middle class as constitutionally confused and therefore destructive to the social fabric of seventeenth-century London. The portrayal of the…

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