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Shakespeare’s ‘Whores’: Erotics, Politics, and Poetics

✍ Scribed by Kay Stanton (auth.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Leaves
202
Series
Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: ‘Am I that name’?....Pages 1-15
‘Made to write “whore” upon?’: Male and Female Use of the Word ‘Whore’....Pages 16-42
‘Enough to make a whore forswear her trade’: Prostitution as Woman’s ‘Oldest Profession’....Pages 43-68
The Heroic Tragedy of Cleopatra: The ‘Prostitute Queen’....Pages 69-114
Female Erotic Passion: Toward Sex As You Like It....Pages 115-134
Venus: Mother of All ‘Whores’....Pages 135-148
Stripping Shakespeare’s ‘Whores’....Pages 149-158
Back Matter....Pages 159-191

✦ Subjects

Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Poetry and Poetics; British and Irish Literature

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