Prostitution, Literature, and Drama, 1500-1650
by
Duncan Salkeld
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
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...