1. Thomas Middleton,A Mad World, my Masters, I. 1. 87, ed. byPeter Saccio, annotated by Celia Daileader, inThomas Middleton: The Collected Works, ed. byGary TaylorandJohn Lavagnino(Oxford:Clarendon Press,2007), pp.414–51(p.419).
2. The term ‘un-scene’ was invented by Celia Daileader inEroticism on the Renaissance Stage: Transcendence, Desire and the Limits of the Visible(Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,1998), p.102. In ‘Off-Stage Sex and Female Desire’ (pp.23–50) she discusses this scene as a key example of sex as un-scene.
3. Daileader,Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage,Herbert Heller,Penitent Brothellers: Grace, Sexuality and Genre in Thomas Middleton's City Comedies(Newark:University of Delaware Press,2000), pp.52–58, and Peter Saccio, ‘Introduction’ toA Mad World, my Masters, inThomas Middleton: The Collected Works, pp.414–16, all comment on the ‘brilliance’ of this scene, but Heller and Saccio place it within a tradition of moralized representation of whores, and Daileader focuses on the off-stage sex.