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Shakespeare among the courtesans : prostitution, literature, and drama, 1500-1650 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salkeld, Duncan, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
Series:Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Italy.
Courtesans in literature.
Comparative literature > English and Italian.
Comparative literature > Italian and English.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Prostitutes in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Classical and early modern counterparts
  • "Foul disease" on the English stage
  • Travellers and the sex trade in early modern London
  • In between renaissance sheets: making contact
  • Courtesan culture in Kyd, Marlowe And Heywood
  • Shakespeares, the Clerkenwell madam and Rose flower
  • Vanishing tricks: Dekker, Marston and Middleton.