Shakespeare’s ‘Whores’

1. Introduction: ‘Am I that name’?
Kay Stanton

2. ‘Made to write “whore” upon?’: Male and Female Use of the Word ‘Whore’
Kay Stanton

3. ‘Enough to make a whore forswear her trade’: Prostitution as Woman’s ‘Oldest Profession’
Kay Stanton

4. The Heroic Tragedy of Cleopatra: The ‘Prostitute Queen’
Kay Stanton

5. Female Erotic Passion: Toward Sex As You Like It
Kay Stanton

6. Venus: Mother of All ‘Whores’
Kay Stanton

7. Stripping Shakespeare’s ‘Whores’
Kay Stanton

Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature