Shakespeare's BawdyThis 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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Adonis All's allusion amorous Antony appetite bawd bawdy Beatrice blood body brothel caresses chaste chastity Cleopatra cognate coït common-Teutonic origin common-Teutonic stock copulation Coriolanus Cressida cuckold Cymbeline defile desire Dream elsewhere erotic especially etymological Ex Old Falstaff female flesh Gentlemen girl Glossary Hamlet hath hence Henry Henry IV Henry VI homosexual honour horn III ii innuendo Juliet Lady Lear lecher love-making lover Lover's Complaint Lucrece lust maid maidenhead male man's Measure medlar Merry Wives mistress Old Norse one's Othello pandar passage Passionate Pilgrim penis perhaps Pericles phrase Pistol play preceding entry prick probably prostitute pudend punning reference Richard III says second quotation semantics sense sexual intercourse Shakespeare slang Sonnets sport strumpet sweet tail Tale Taming Tearsheet thee thou Timon tion Titus Andronicus Troilus Twelfth Night urine venereal Venus virginity wanton wench whore wife woman women word Wyld