The Dutch Courtesan by John Marston - They sell their bodies; do not better persons sell their souls?

MALHEUREUX This lust is a most deadly sin, sure. FREEVILL Nay, ‘tis a most lively sin, sure. (I.1, 9) Now there is an efficient statement of a theme of John Marston’s A Dutch Courtesan (performed c. 1604, published 1605). It is the most sexually explicit Elizabethan or Jacobean play I have come across, explicit in its talk, of course, it is all talk, what do you think was happening on the English…