The Dutch Courtesan

The Dutch Courtesan is an early Jacobean stage play written by the dramatist and satirist John Marston circa 1604.

It was performed by the Children of the Queen's Revels, one of the troupes of boy actors active at the time, in the Blackfriars Theatre in London.

The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 26 June 1605, and published later that year by the bookseller John Hodgets, printed by Thomas Purfoot.

[2] But in its moral framework the play, like much of Marston's work, is also deeply indebted to the Essays of Montaigne, especially to the essay Sur des verses de Vergil (On some verses of Vergil) (III.5), which discusses the control of physical desire and the difference between love and lust.

[4] The character Mary Faugh – who runs the brothel – admits that she is a member of the Family of Love and the vintner Mulligrub and his wife are also identified as such.