Romance is an obstacle course, best navigated with the aid of disguises, dissembling, and a clever confidante’s discretion. So suggests the Queen’s Company’s peppy all-female take on Susanna Centlivre’s 1714 comedy The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret —a gleeful drag show that, in the e…
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Confused Identities in The Wonder
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