Filthy Shakespeare
Shakespeare's most outrageous sexual puns
by Pauline Kiernan
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Explores the meaning and significance of sexually loaded passages and references from some of Shakespeare's most popular poems and plays, and offers comparisons of passages in the original language and the modern English vernacular.
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Essays, Humor (Nonfiction), Nonfiction, Criticism, Quotations, Language, Sex in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Language and languages, Puns and punning in literature, Anspielung, Obszönität, Erotik, Wortspiel, Puns and punning, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, criticism and interpretation, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, quotations| Edition | Availability |
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Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's most outrageous sexual puns
2007, Quercus
in English
1847240739 9781847240736
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Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns
October 4, 2007, Gotham
Hardcover
in English
1592403271 9781592403271
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Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's most outrageous sexual puns
2007, Quercus
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Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's most outrageous sexual puns
2007, Quercus
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Originally published: 2006.
Includes index.
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Celebrating the Bard in all his bawdy glory, an eminent scholar puts the spotlight on the down-and-dirty sexual puns lurking in Shakespeare's work.Everyone knows of his matchless understanding of the human condition, but we have been deprived for centuries of the full extent of one of Shakespeare's most brilliant dramatic devices. Restoring the saucy, often shocking meanings that lie beneath his words, Filthy Shakespeare gives modern readers a tour of the brothels, buggery, trannies, pimps, pricks, and other tawdry references populating his best-known works. The tension between sexual wordplay and politics provides a captivating historical backdrop, while the fascinating facts about life in Will's England make us see his masterworks in their gritty authenticity.Revealing and riotously funny, Filthy Shakespeare is the perfect gift for anyone who wants to rediscover the master of the sexual pun at his most inventive.
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