The Respectful Prostitute

About “The Respectful Prostitute”

The Respectful Prostitute is a French play by Jean-Paul Sartre, written in 1946, which observes a white woman, a prostitute, caught up in a racially tense period of American history following an incident on a train, where blame is laid on a black man though a white man instigated the attack, in the interests of the law preserving perceptions. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)