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Shakespeare Among the Courtesans - Prostitution, Literature, and Drama, 1500-1650 (Paperback)
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Shakespeare Among the Courtesans - Prostitution, Literature, and Drama, 1500-1650 (Paperback)
Series: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
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Courtesans - women who achieve wealth, status, or power through
sexual transgression - have played both a central and contradictory
role in literature: they have been admired, celebrated, feared, and
vilified. This study of the courtesan in Renaissance English drama
focuses not only on the moral ambivalence of these women, but with
special attention to Anglo-Italian relations, illuminates little
known aspects of their lives. It traces the courtesan from a wry
comedic character in the plays of Terence and Plautus to its
literary exhaustion in the seventeenth-century dramatic works of
Dekker, Marston, Webster, Middleton, Shirley and Brome. The author
focuses especially on the presentation of the courtesan in the
sixteenth century - dramas by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Lyly view
the courtesan as a symbol of social disease and decay, transforming
classical conventions into English prejudices. Renaissance
Anglo-Italian cultural and sexual relations are also investigated
through comparisons of travel narratives, original source
materials, and analysis of Aretino's representations of celebrated
Italian courtesans. Amid these fascinating tales of aspiration,
desire and despair lingers the intriguing question of who was the
'dark lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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