| Description |
1 online resource (1649 pages) |
| Series |
Athlone Shakespeare Dictionary |
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Athlone Shakespeare Dictionary
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| Contents |
Contents; Introduction; How to use the Dictionary; Abbreviations; Volume I: AF; Volume II: GP; Volume III: QZ; Bibliography |
| Summary |
Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illumi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Language -- Glossaries, etc.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Dictionaries
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Sex in literature -- Dictionaries
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English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
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Erotic literature, English -- Dictionaries
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Figures of speech -- Dictionaries
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Sex -- Terminology -- Dictionaries
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English language
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English language -- Early modern
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English literature
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English literature -- Early modern
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Erotic literature, English
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Figures of speech
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Language and languages
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Sex in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries
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Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781847142566 |
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1847142567 |
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