Sex, Love and Marriage in the Elizabethan Age

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Drawing on primary sources including the writings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, reports on cases of adultery and promiscuity from the 'bawdy courts', and contemporaneous journals, letters and autobiographies, this lively overview of Elizabethan sexuality considers topics such as courtship, marriage, prostitution, moral restraint and inhibition, as well as the amorous goings-on in the royal household and the frustrations of The Virgin Queen herself.

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