The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

by Martha Feldman (Editor), Bonnie Gordon (Editor)

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Courtesans' arts have shaped cultures for centuries, even though their arts have frequently been lost. This interdisciplinary collection explores courtesans cultures from a cross-cultural perspective, past and present, to show how the arts have figured in the courtesan's survival and demise.

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Martha Feldman

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Martha Feldman is the Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Music, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Theater and Performance Studies, and Judith T. Zeitlin is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Theater and Performance Studies, both at the University of Chicago.