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	Gonorrhoea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gonorrhea (slang term "the clap") is among the most common curable sexually transmitted diseases in the world and is caused by the Gram-negative bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
		PID causes scarring of the fallopian tubes which leads to increased risks of causing an ectopic pregnancy as a fertilized egg may not be able to pass through the narrowed, scarred fallopian tube.
		(Another suggested source for the term is from the notorious 18th century brothel keeper known as "Mother Clap", though perhaps her name itself was derived from the slang term).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_clap (1269 words)

	Margaret Clap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These were called molly houses, and the most famous of these was Mother Clap's molly house in the Holborn area of London, specifically on Field Lane (heading north to Farringdon), which was later destroyed by the construction of Holborn Viaduct.
		It is speculated that soon after her release from the stocks she died from the injuries she sustained, though no historical records document this [1].
		Some hold that the name "the clap" is an eponym of "Mother Clap" ("the clap" being a slang term for Gonorrhea) presumably because sexually transmitted diseases were rife among the underground homosexual community in the 18th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Clap (313 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Clap, Margaret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is unclear when Clap opened her house to mollies, but by the fall of 1724 it had become one of the most popular venues for them to gather.
		On July 23, 1726, Margaret Clap was convicted of "keeping a Disorderly House in Chick-lane for the Entertainment of Sodomites." The judge sentenced her to stand in the pillory, pay a fine of twenty marks, and spend two years in jail.
		Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England, 1700-1830.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/clap_m.html (784 words)

	Mark Ravenhill - Mother Clap's Molly House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mother Claps Molly House by Mark Ravenhill "Like bawdy Shakespeare meets wild Wycherley filtered through the formalised camp of John Osborne's A Patriot for Me...how wonderful to see the rabid raw talent of Ravenhhill given the full works." Michael Coveney, Daily Mail It's London 1726, and Mrs Tull's got problems.
		Mother Clap's Molly House, a fl comedy with songs is a celebration of the diversity of human sexualtiy, an exploration of our need to form families and a fascinatig insight into a hidden chapter in London's history.
		Mother Clap's Molly House permiered at the Royal National Theatre, London in October 2001.
	web.axelero.hu /sudabala/eng/engpages/clap.htm (594 words)

	Margaret Clap -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After a tip off to the local constabulary, Mother Clap's was raided in 1726 and she was sentenced to spend time in the (A wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the neck and hands; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn) stocks.
		Public feeling against acts of (Anal intercourse committed by a man with a man or woman) sodomy was quite high at the time and Clap was physically attacked by angry citizens throughout her sentence.
		It is speculated that soon after her release from the stocks she died from the injuries she sustained, though no historical records document this.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Margaret_Clap.htm (281 words)

	Mother Clap's Molly House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mother Clap’s house bore no specific name; it was a private residence and coffee house rather than a public inn or tavern.
		Mother Clap and her company would have gone unmolested were it not for the jealousy of an embittered homosexual turned informant named Mark Partridge.
		Having only one defence, Mother Clap, with great presence of mind (and no little sense of irony), indignantly addressed the jury thus: ‘I hope it will be consider’d that I am a Woman, and therefore it cannot be thought that I would ever be concern’d in such Practices’.
	www.infopt.demon.co.uk /mother.htm (6887 words)

	Mother Clap's Molly House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mother Clap’s Molly House, Mark Ravenhill’s ambitious comedy for gay sexual manners through the ages, is both farcical romp and angry political polemic.
		Mother Clap’s has a level of purely theatrical ambition missing in nearly all the National Theatre’s recent new plays.
		Her Mother Clap begins in timidity and terror and grows into a hilarious performance of high comic brilliance which never loses sight of truth and tenderness.
	website-archive.nt-online.org /productions/rd/more/motherclappsmollyhouse082001.html (1333 words)

	New Statesman: Mollyfied - Mother Clap's Molly House - Mark Ravenhill - Deborah Findlay - Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As Mrs Tull becomes Mother Clap, and her mollies codify their pleasures, the modern equivalents are armoured in horny indifference.
		However, although Mother Clap is ambitious in scale and exuberantly imagined (and generously directed by Nicholas Hytner), Ravenhill may still be amplifying his startling first success.
		Mother Clap's Molly House continues in repertory at the National Theatre, London SEI (020 7452 3000)
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4555_130/ai_79005524 (921 words)

	indielondon.co.uk - theatre - mother clap's molly house
		Mother Clap's Molly House at The Aldwych, by Mark Ravenhill, a play with music, is reminiscent of a pantomime in its use of exuberance as it explains the dubious delights of buggery.
		Their shenanigans and lack of moral guilt make up the bulk of the first act of the play and it ends with a celebration that money and sex or profit and pleasure can be reconciled, and with this joyous discovery, Eros god of love is showered with rose petals as in the film American Beauty.
		Mother Clap's Molly House is scheduled to run for six weeks.
	www.indielondon.co.uk /theatre/t_mother_claps_molly_house.html (763 words)

	BBC News \| REVIEWS \| Shocking Mother Clap fails to rouse
		"Mother Clap" is the nickname given to Mrs Tull, a widow in 18th Century London who stops renting dresses to prostitutes so she can open a refuge for homosexuals, or "mollys".
		As musical drama, though, Mother Clap is distinctly amateurish and, despite all the lurid detail, rather dull.
		Mother Clap's Molly House is at the National Theatre, London, until 24 November
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/1528335.stm (373 words)

	Knitting Circle Mark Ravenhill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His play Mother Clap's Molly House, (2001), was said to be inspired by Rictor Norton's book "Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830", (1992).
		Mother Clap's Molly House, 2001, a play, directed by Nicholas Hytner, was previewed at the Lyttelton Theatre, London.
		This play is definitely not a dramatisation of Rictor Norton's book Mother Clap's Molly House, which covers a much greater period, anyhow.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/markravenhill.html (1763 words)

	PSH: Poets of the Week
		Mother rations apples, is on the verge of saying 'I told you so,' repeatedly.
		Mother suggests a fair drawing of lots to determine who will be eaten.
		Mother begins to think hunger is taking its toll as she doesn't recognize her own children.
	poetrysuperhighway.com /ppa50.html (1646 words)

	Theatre: Mother Clap's Molly House -- Vass 323 (7320): 1075 -- BMJ
		Mother Clap's Molly House is a play about men.
		Mother Clap's Molly House: not one reference to HIV
		Mother Clap's Molly House is a camp spectacle reminiscent of music hall and it has some shockingly funny one liners.
	bmj.com /cgi/content/full/323/7320/1075 (452 words)

	The Nassau Guardian - What you need to know
		The slang name "claps", however, is said to have originally derived from an early 18th century Madam of an illegal homosexual brothel in London.
		Because of the negativitiy surrounding the issue, and Mother Clap's prosecution for housing the illegal business; long after her death, her name lives on in the name associated with gonorrhoea disease.
		However, mothers infected with gonorrhoea can also transfer the disease to their children during delivery.
	www.thenassauguardian.com /social_community/288530634264257.php (449 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mother Clap I have great respect for – but don't exactly enjoy.
		The reason, though, why the event is compulsory viewing is Deborah Findlay's quite brilliant performance as Mother Clap, the lonely, childless woman who first blossoms into a kind of glorious fag-hag as the "mother" of a bawdy house of cross-dressers and then realises that this occupation is not emotionally nourishing enough.
		Warren is the one who should be showered with awards – not Jones, who, despite the awards and the unfelt and mugged-up science, is still, in creative terms, fighting the Battle of the Bulge.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /theatre/reviews/article190919.ece (763 words)

	London theatre tickets for Mother Clap's Molly House play on stage in London's West End Aldwych Theatre - ticket buying ...
		Mother Clap's Molly House, a fl comedy with songs, is a celebration of the diversity of human sexuality, an exploration of our need to form families, and a fascinating insight into a hidden chapter in London's history.
		On 12 June 2001: It was announced that Mother Claps's Molly House would open at the Lyttelton Theatre on 4 September 2001.
		On 4 August 2001: It was announced that Mother Claps's Molly House would close at the Lyttelton Theatre on 24 November 2001.
	www.albemarle-london.com /motherclap.html (1152 words)

	Borders - Feature - The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
		But I had been taught that he was simultaneously the naked pink baby made of plaster that I put into the Christmas manger every year, the suffering man nailed to the crucifix before which we prayed—even though both of these were actually his son—as well as a sort of ghost called the Holy Spirit.
		Of course, I knew perfectly well that Joseph was Mary's husband, and that Jesus, even though he was both God and the son of God, called him "Father." The Virgin was in fact the mother of the Christ child, but there were times when she was referred to as his daughter.
		The clap had been my baptism; for many years after, I lived in mortal terror of that scissoring pain, even though it struck me as being nothing more than a distinguishing sign, the shared fate of those who fuck a lot.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=sexuallifeofcatherinem (2313 words)

	The British Theatre Guide : Reviews - Mother Clap's Molly House
		Mother Clap’s Molly House, which is his first play at RNT, looks at similar issues around gay life in London but takes a very new angle as it is largely set in the London of the early eighteenth century.
		She is adopted by her Mollies and becomes the eponymous Mother Clap.
		Mark Ravenhill has generally done them proud by writing a good play (although some of the love scenes are a little cloying) that should prove popular with his fans, especially those with broad minds.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /reviews/motherclap-rev.htm (712 words)

	The Gay Vote :: UK politics for lesbians and gay men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A marked departure from Ravenhill's previous work, including the notorious "Shopping and F*ing" and "Some Explicit Polaroids", the scenes of "Mother Clap's** Molly House" alternate between 18th- and 21st-century London, drawing fundamental parallels between past and present notions of family, sexuality, gender roles, and commerce.
		"Mother Clap's Molly House" drew new and enthusiastic faces to the National, inticing audiences from the theatre fringe right to the heart of London's South Bank, creating a refreshing crossroads of opinions and ideas.
		Ravenhill also managed to offend a few people, who left the theatre in a huff, ultimately leaving more room for the rest of us who were having a ball.
	www.thegayvote.co.uk /bookshop/book/413769305 (394 words)

	WetCanvas! - Mother & Child
		You have captured the body language of mother and suckling babe perfectly.
		That is, the mother and child need a sharper focus that makes the background and all else enhance them.
		If the mother and child were sitting before you, folds and wrinkles of the foreground fabric might in fact be blurred.
	randy.artistnation.com /forums/printthread.php?t=294653 (983 words)

	Mother Clap's Molly House, a CurtainUp review
		The records show that one Margaret Clap was prosecuted for keeping a "Sodomitical" house in Field Lane Holborn.
		Mother Clap's Molly House places the scenes from 1726 alongside those from a raunchy gay party set in 2001 in the London flat of young wealthy gay men.
		There are songs from the company to add to the jubilation, some fun dance from men in frocks and ballet and music from a sprightly Eros (Paul J Medford) who makes the three hundred year fashion switch well.
	www.curtainup.com /motherclap.html (780 words)

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		Originally, it was a time for visiting one's ‘mother church' – the church in the town where one hailed from, and people would travel back home to attend – but gradually came to be a day for honouring one’s mother and giving her gifts.
		A common early activity was the meeting of groups of mothers whose sons had fought or died on opposite sides of the
		As the custom of Mother's Day spread, the emphasis shifted from the pacificism and reform movements to a general appreciation of mothers.
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		Their mother is separated from their father, who is in Mexico with another woman.
		There is an air of resentment and distance between Elliott and his mother, as if he blames her for his father leaving.
		Gertie and her mother clap their hands as they read the story, saying that they believe in fairies, as Elliott and ET listen and embrace.
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	London Theatre Guide Theatre Current Reviews / Mother Clap's Molly House 2001 / 2002
		When her husband dies of the pox she is forced to take over the running of the business, but she falls out with the whores who won’t hire her dresses anymore.
		Deborah Findlay as ‘Mother Clap’ is outstanding and holds the entire play together.
		Mother Clap is an ambitious tragicomedy of sex and seduction..." PETER HEPPLE for THE STAGE says, "Though the second half is not as strong as the first....
	www.londontheatre.co.uk /londontheatre/reviews/motherclapsmollyhouse01.htm (694 words)

	BBC News \| REVIEWS \| Mother Clap's Molly House: Press views
		It's Ravenhill's major weakness, though, that he makes economics the sole moulder of homosexual behaviour, avoiding all consideration of political, religious and cultural forces of oppression.
		Mother Clap's Molly House is a daring, impassioned lament for decadent gay lives, but becomes too captivated by the gay high-jinks it presents and condemns.
		Ravenhill's writing is tough, eloquent, sardonic, with some of the barbed formality of the Restoration style, which gets brutally peeled off in the present-day scenes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/reviews/newsid_1531000/1531232.stm (414 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Musical Theater and Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although mostly set in eighteenth-century London gay male culture, Mother Clap's Molly House features another diva role, a shrewd London woman who gains wealth and personal empowerment from running a "molly house," a gay club.
		Mother Clap, brilliantly portrayed in the original production by Deborah Findlay, is a direct descendant of Angela Lansbury's Mrs.
		Mother Clap's Molly House had a successful though limited run in repertory at London's Royal National Theatre.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/music_zal_theater_film,3.html (666 words)

	Part 5 "I Pray the Lord My Soul to Keep" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Her mother would clap her hands as her small daughter declared with child like enthusiasm that she had once again 'bas'd the moster good'.
		When her mother had begun to disapprove of her aggressive nature Jamie had been bewildered and not a little bit hurt.
		The glow from mother moon, hanging low in the sky on this night, filled her with an ethereal light.
	elena.beltran.nu /writing/ipray5.html (5875 words)

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