Description
| Product ID: | 9780415254007 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Classics |
| Title: | Shakespeare's Bawdy |
| Authors: | Author: Eric Partridge |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Language: history and general works, Language: history & general works, Linguistics, Language teaching and learning, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literature: history and criticism, Reference works, linguistics, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Shakespeare plays, Literature: history & criticism, Reference works |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This classic work fully explains the whole range of sexual, scatological language and allusion in Shakespeare's works. Consisting of an alphabetical glossary with cross-references, this book helps the modern reader to make sense of the bawdy. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-05-18 |
