Several clusters of metaphors were routinely used to represent the sex trade onstage in early modern England. Close philological study of these figures reveals that even the most conventional metaphors for whores and their work were capable of meaning many things at once, especially in the discursive context of the drama. This project follows a practice of reading that admits multiple significations for the words used by characters on the early modern stage. I argue that metaphors are social phenomena with consequences as varied and complex as the human interactions they're meant to describe. Each chapter treats a different set of images: commodities and commercial transactions, buildings and thoroughfares, food and drink, and rhetorica...
This study explores the role of exchange in creating, solidifying, or de-stabilizing the bonds and h...
L’usage que fait Shakespeare des métaphores dans les romances (Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tal...
2015-2016 U-M Library Undergraduate Research Award - First Place, Maize Award for Single-Term Projec...
In this account of early modern prostitution and Shakespeare’s theatre, with its direct representati...
Shakespeare’s Whore examines how prostitution operates like a language in early modern England: info...
Shakespeare’s Whore examines how prostitution operates like a language in early modern England: info...
Such was the popularity of the whore as a dramatic figure in the earlier seventeenth century that o...
Over the period Shakespeare was writing there was a fundamental evolution in the meaning of “commodi...
Such was the popularity of the whore as a dramatic figure in the earlier seventeenth century that o...
Such was the popularity of the whore as a dramatic figure in the earlier seventeenth century that o...
This thesis examines the relationship between the sexual formation of identity and three ‘impressing...
Restricted until 21 July 2010.Frequently in early modern London, as Elizabeth Fowler aptly put it, ...
This paper explores representations of prostitution and the satirical criticism of material desire i...
253 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.Although much work has been d...
This study investigates stage props as alternate stage representations of female characters. Since t...
This study explores the role of exchange in creating, solidifying, or de-stabilizing the bonds and h...
L’usage que fait Shakespeare des métaphores dans les romances (Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tal...
2015-2016 U-M Library Undergraduate Research Award - First Place, Maize Award for Single-Term Projec...
In this account of early modern prostitution and Shakespeare’s theatre, with its direct representati...
Shakespeare’s Whore examines how prostitution operates like a language in early modern England: info...
Shakespeare’s Whore examines how prostitution operates like a language in early modern England: info...
Such was the popularity of the whore as a dramatic figure in the earlier seventeenth century that o...
Over the period Shakespeare was writing there was a fundamental evolution in the meaning of “commodi...
Such was the popularity of the whore as a dramatic figure in the earlier seventeenth century that o...
Such was the popularity of the whore as a dramatic figure in the earlier seventeenth century that o...
This thesis examines the relationship between the sexual formation of identity and three ‘impressing...
Restricted until 21 July 2010.Frequently in early modern London, as Elizabeth Fowler aptly put it, ...
This paper explores representations of prostitution and the satirical criticism of material desire i...
253 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.Although much work has been d...
This study investigates stage props as alternate stage representations of female characters. Since t...
This study explores the role of exchange in creating, solidifying, or de-stabilizing the bonds and h...
L’usage que fait Shakespeare des métaphores dans les romances (Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tal...
2015-2016 U-M Library Undergraduate Research Award - First Place, Maize Award for Single-Term Projec...