Shakespeare’s Bawdy
Eric Partridge
304 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0415254000
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Language: English
Publish: 990169200000
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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.