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Shakespeare's Bawdy (Routledge Classics) Book

When Shakespeare's plays were first performed, they were popular with everyone: they weren't classics yet or a requisite course to be suffered. The stories were good entertainment for the masses, with a bawdy streak a mile wide. Certainly Shakespeare's depth and insight into human nature was appreciated, but surely some came just for the dirt. Shakespeare's contemporaries didn't need a glossary to get the jokes, but we do. Thank goodness for Eric Partridge's dictionary of Elizabethan smut, so we can get the double-entendres, too. Thus, "hardening of one's brows" (The Winter's Tale) refers to being cuckolded, "laced mutton" (Two Gentleman of Verona) is a prostitute, "riggish" (Cleopatra) means lascivious, and "groping for trout in a peculiar river" (Measure for Measure) means copulating with a woman. With an essay on the sexual, homosexual, and nonsexual bawdy in Shakespeare, an index to the essay, and a full glossary of bawdry, Partridge puts the nudge and wink back in Shakespeare.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Modern readers often miss or misinterpret the sexual and scatalogical language and allusions in Shakespeare's works. While all other aspects of his texts have been analyzed many times over, this interesting topic is often ignored in the more traditional commentaries, depriving readers of the full range of the wit--and genius--of his writing. Shakespeare's Bawdy, now in its third edition, addresses this neglected area. This best-selling classic analyzes and exemplifies the expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, then provides an alphabetical glossary of all the words and phrases used in a sexual or scatalogical sense, with full explanations and cross-references.

  • 0415050766
  • 9780415050760
  • Eric Partridge
  • 1 December 1990
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
  • New edition of Revised edition
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