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  1. Shakespeare among the courtesans
    prostitution, literature, and drama, 1500 - 1650
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Ashgate, Farnham [u.a.]

    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... mehr

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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    GE 2013/2788
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    2012 A 20608
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    62/14825
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    Klassik Stiftung Weimar / Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
    HI 1161 S167
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    62.4203
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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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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel; Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9780754663874; 0754663876
    Weitere Identifier:
    9780754663874
    RVK Klassifikation: HI 1161 ; HI 3385
    Schriftenreihe: Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series
    Schlagworte: Courtesans in literature; Comparative literature; Comparative literature; English drama; Prostitutes in literature; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Courtesans in literature; English drama; English drama; England
    Weitere Schlagworte: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
    Umfang: XIV, 206 S., Ill., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references 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.