Sex Averted or Converted: Sexuality and Tragicomic Genre in the Plays of Fletcher

Sexuality in the tragicomedies of Fletcher is discussed. Fletcher's tragicomedies focus on sexuality for its own sake; the results are at times prurient or titillating but also theatrically exciting and often psychologically compelling explorations of extreme, potentially tragic sexual dilemmas from whose worst consequences both the characters and the audience are generically protected.