Convent of Pleasure

• A rejection of heterosexual economy, but not really - they act out loving relationships; the princess is actually a prince - moments of same-sex desire are embedded within heteronormative performances → not a creation of alternate space, but an exploration of these established places.
• Cross-dressing alongside plays-within-plays → heterosexual and homosexual boundaries are mixed; resisting and embracing; expressing hetero and homosexual desire simultaneously.
• "If all Married women were as unhappy as I, marriage were a curse.”
• "Marriage is a Curse we find, Especially to Women kind: From the Cobler’s wife we see, To Ladies, they unhappy be."
• “Why very well, as, to discourse, embrace and kiss, so mingle souls together.”
• “These my Imbraces though of Femal kind, may be as fervent as a Masculine kind.”