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ROWE Tumir, Vaska. "She-tragedy and its Men: Conflict and Form in The Orphan and The Fair Penitent," SEL, 30 (Summer 1990), 411-428.
Ms. Tumir refreshingly turns away from the popular heroines of she-tragedy to look at male characters. Unlike the Jacobean model from which they sprang, the younger men in The Orphan and The Fair Penitent have an "unprecedented degree of pathos" and are subject "to the will of other men" ('"Sons and Fathers' could easily stand as the title of a study the political...