SOURCE: “The Early Years—Romantic Comedy, Satire,” in Thomas Dekker and the Traditions of English Drama, Peter Lang, 1985, pp. 11-53.
In the excerpt below, Champion analyzes the construction of the two parts of The Honest Whore. He judges Part II a masterpiece, comparing its structure to that of “Shakespeare's most effective comedies.”
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