It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public” (1633). The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. Indeed, it is not even decent … and that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. “…She will place me next to Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner table. However, the homoerotic connotations of the punning name (even the double “bu”‘s, which serve mostly an alliterative purpose, insinuate a union of similarities, and “Bunbury” rhymes with “buggery,” British slang for sodomy) flare up when paired with Algernon’s repeated assaults on marriage:ĪLGERNON. Algernon’s and Jack’s “Bunburys” initially function as separate geographic personas for the city and country, simple escapes from nagging social obligations. The play’s initial thrust is in its exploration of bisexual identities.
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