Shakespeare's Bawdy - Brossura

Partridge, Eric

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ISBN 10: 0415050766 ISBN 13: 9780415050760

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1968

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

'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

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0415050766
• ISBN 13: 9780415050760
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 240