Duncan Salkeld

Shakespeare Among the Courtesans

Prostitution, Literature, and Drama, 1500-1650. Duncan Salkeld

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Produktbeschreibung

Focuses not only on the moral ambivalence of these women, but with attention to Anglo-Italian relations, illuminates little known aspects of their lives. This title traces the courtesan from a stock comedic character in the plays of Terence and Plautus to its literary exhaustion in the seventeenth-century dramatic works of Dekker, and Marston.

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Paying special attention to Anglo-Italian cultural and sexual relations during the Renaissance, this study traces the development and decline of the courtesan in English drama. Salkeld draws on original historical materials to explore contradictory dramatic representations of courtesans in a variety of texts ranging from Shakespeare's poems and plays to works by Aretino, Nashe, Dekker and Middleton.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780754663874
• ISBN-10: 0754663876
• Artikelnr.: 41245244

Autorenporträt

Duncan Salkeld is Reader in Shakespeare Studies at The University of Chichester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Classical and Early Modern Counterparts
Chapter 2 English Prototypes and the 'foul disease'
Chapter 3 Travellers and the Sex Trade in Early Modern London
Chapter 4 In Between Renaissance Sheets: Making Contact
Chapter 5 Courtesan Culture in Kyd, Marlowe and Heywood
Chapter 6 Shakespeares, the Clerkenwell Madam and Rose Flower
Chapter 7 Vanishing Tricks: Dekker, Marston, Shakespeare and Middleton