SOURCE: "Parent and Child: The Pattern of Love in Women Beware Women," in "Accompaninge the players": Essays Celebrating Thomas Middleton, 1580-1980, edited by Kenneth Friedenreich, AMS Press, 1983, pp. 183-201.
Wigler investigates the three love affairs in Women Be-ware Women—between Bianca and the Duke, Isabella and Hippolito, and Leantio and Livia—in support of his contention that "the pattern of love" in the play "is ultimately something very close to incest. "
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