SOURCE: "The Jailer's Daughter and the Politics of Madwomen's Language," in Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 3, Fall, 1995, pp. 277-300.
In the essay that follows, Bruster explores the character of the jailer's daughter as "'a pivotal figure in Jacobean drama, " highlighting relations of power in the play and commenting on Jacobean culture and social change.
