The theatre of the Stuart Court : including the complete designs for productions at court, for the most part in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire, together with their texts and historical documentation

Abstract

Middleton that he practically substitutes a genial, almost Shakespearean Middleton who is fond even of his least-engaging characters. For instance, his discussion of the voluntary cuckold of Chaste Maid, Allwit, emphasizes the at the expense of the ironic. Indeed, the major weakness of Covatta's approach is his exaggeration of the half of the term comic irony. The main value of Covatta's approach is that he covers all of the comedies anyone cares to read and takes them seriously as literary (and not sociological or simply satiric) works. His approach is not original so much as it is complementary to the work of previous critics.