Shakespeare's Bawdy
By Eric Partridge
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-05076-0
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 31st March 1968
- Pages: 240
About the Book
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.
Reviews
'It reads as freshly today as it did fifty years ago, when it surprised everyone with its originality and daring, an intriguing blend of personal insight and solid detective-work. If ever a word-book deserved to be called a classic, it is this.' -
David Crystal
About the Author(s)
Eric Partridge (1884-1979) was the author of some three dozen books, mainly on the aspects of the English language.
Stanley Wells is an eminent Shakespearean scholar and the general editor of
Oxford Shakespeare.
