商品簡介
Salkeld (Shakespeare studies, U. of Chichester, England) combines close readings of European literature and micro-historical enquiry in order to explore shifting literary and social attitudes towards the figure of the courtesan in the period 1500-1650 and to locate aspects of William Shakespeare's work within that context. Seven chapters discuss English stage prototypes of the prostitute figure; the operation of bawdy houses and networks of prostitutes in early modern London; representations of courtesans in a work attributed to Pietro Aretino and in the poem The Choice of Valentines by Thomas Nashe; representations of the continental courtesan in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, and Thomas Heywood's King Edward IV; the lives of courtesans that Shakespeare may reasonably be thought to have known; and the ways in which some dramatists, such as Shakespeare in Measure for Measure, sought to socially redeem the courtesan by converting her into a wife. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Duncan Salkeld is Reader in Shakespeare Studies at The University of Chichester, UK.
