Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979, author.

Title Shakespeare's bawdy / Eric Partridge ; with a foreword by Stanley Wells
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2001

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xii, 291 pages)
Series Routledge classics
Routledge classics.
Contents Chapter 1 INTRODUCTORY -- chapter 2 NON-SEXUAL BAWDY -- chapter 3 HOMOSEXUAL -- chapter 4 SEXUAL -- chapter 5 GENERAL -- chapter 6 VALEDICTORY
Summary This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The main body of the work consists of an alphabetical glossary of all words and phrases used in a sexual or scatological sense, with full explanations and cross-references
Notes Print version record
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Language -- Glossaries, etc.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Obscene words
Bawdy poetry, English -- History and criticism
Vulgarity in literature.
Sex in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
Bawdy poetry, English
English language -- Early modern -- Obscene words
Language and languages
Sex in literature
Vulgarity in literature
Seksualiteit.
Genre/Form Electronic books
controlled vocabularies.
Controlled vocabularies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.
Vocabulaires contrôlés.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 020399597X
9780203995976
9780415254007
0415254000