SOURCE: "The Jailers's Daughter and the Politics of Madwomen's Language," in Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 3, Fall, 1995, pp. 277-300.
In the essay below, Bruster focuses on the mad speeches of the Jailer's Daughter, asserting that through the "mad language of this otherwise disempowered character" the power structure within the play is revealed, as are the social relationships and cultural changes in the Jacobean playhouse and Jacobean society.
