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Shakespeare among the courtesans : prostitution, literature, and drama, 1500-1650
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- Creator
- Duncan Salkeld
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780754663874, 0754663876
- OCLC
- ocn781848492
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-192) and index.
- 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