A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature
A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature

Author: Gordon Williams

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2001-09-13

Total Pages: 1650

ISBN-13: 0485113937

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Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.

A Glossary of Shakespeare's Sexual Language
A Glossary of Shakespeare's Sexual Language

Author: Gordon Williams

Publisher: Burns & Oates

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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An alphabetical guide to Shakespeare's sexual language, with an introduction. Entries include quotes from specific plays and sonnets, and cross-references. Distributed by Humanities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature: Q-Z
A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature: Q-Z

Author: Gordon Williams

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13:

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Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.

A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their Significance
A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their Significance

Author: Frankie Rubinstein

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1989-12-11

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1349204528

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'...Rubinstein is far from innocent and comes to our aid with a lot of learning...and is quite right to urge that not to appreciate the sexiness of Shakespeare's language impoverishes our own understanding of him. For one thing, it was a strong element in his appeal to Elizabethans, who were much less woolly-mouthed and smooth-tongued than we are. For another, it has constituted a salty preservative for his work, among those who can appreciate it...an enlightening book.' A.L.Rowse, The Standard.

A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their Significance
A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their Significance

Author: Frankie Rubinstein

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1989-12-11

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780312126773

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'...Rubinstein is far from innocent and comes to our aid with a lot of learning...and is quite right to urge that not to appreciate the sexiness of Shakespeare's language impoverishes our own understanding of him. For one thing, it was a strong element in his appeal to Elizabethans, who were much less woolly-mouthed and smooth-tongued than we are. For another, it has constituted a salty preservative for his work, among those who can appreciate it...an enlightening book.' A.L.Rowse, The Standard.

Dictionary of Shakespeare
Dictionary of Shakespeare

Author: Louise McConnell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9781579582159

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William Shakespeare is acknowledged to be the greatest writer in the English language. This new dictionary includes more than 1,500 entries that cover: Shakespeare's theatre and stagecraft; Elizabethan history and society; all of Shakespeare's plays and poems; his main characters; and terms used in critical reviews.Each of the encyclopedic entries provides a clear explanation of the term, its origins, relevance and use. Dictionary of Shakespeare has been carefully written in a non-technical way to insure that all levels of student and researcher will find the entries clear and uncomplicated.The entries help explain the terms used in Shakespeare's texts and in their execution and so provides the historical context required to give the reader a full background of the term. This feature sets the dictionary apart from others on the same subject that concentrate either on single plays or on the biographies of his characters. No other title explains so great a range of theatrical, historical, and"Shakespearean" terms.

The Dictionary of Shakespeare Words
The Dictionary of Shakespeare Words

Author: Bookcaps

Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1610428943

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Do you ever find yourself reading Shakespeare and are completely lost because of words like Obeisance and Quiddity? This dictionary contains over 4500 Shakespearean words and their definition.