Shakespeare&aposs Bawdy [Paperback]

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.'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 CrystalEric Partridge(1884-1979) was the author of some three dozen books, mainly on the aspects of the English language. Stanley Wellsis an eminent Shakespearean scholar and the general editor of Oxford Shakespeare.