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

Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0485113937
Total Pages : 1650 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature written by Gordon Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Shakespeare's Sexual Language

Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847144551
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Sexual Language written by Gordon Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's use of sexual language, imagery and erotic themes is extensive, varied, and although this is necessarily hard to establish, probably innovative at times. This glossary provides a first-hand guide to Shakespeare's sexual language, some of which is notoriously difficult to unravel and whose roots go back into earlier literature. Compiled by Gordon Williams, author of the authoritative three volume Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, this is a comprehensive but concise reference guide to sexual language and imagery in Shakespeare. Entries are cross-referenced and include references to textual examples where possible.

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature: G-P

Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature: G-P written by Gordon Williams and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Frankie Rubinstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349204528
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their Significance by : Frankie Rubinstein

Download or read book A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their Significance written by Frankie Rubinstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-12-11 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...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.

Shakespeare, Sex, and Love

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199578591
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Sex, and Love written by Stanley Wells and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of Shakespeare and members of his family. He also provides a fascinating account of depictions ofsexuality in the poetry of the period and suggests that at the time Shakespeare was writing most of his non-dramatic verse a group of poets catered especially for readers with homoerotic tastes.The second part of Shakespeare, Sex, - and Love focuses on the variety of ways in which Shakespeare treats sexuality in his plays and at how he relates sexuality to love. Wells shows that Shakespeare's attitude to sex developed over the course of his writing career, and devotes whole chapters to 'The Fun of Sex' - to how he raises laughter out of the matter of sex in both the language and the plotting of some of his comedies; portrayals of sexual desire; to Romeo and Julietas the play in which Shakespeare focuses most centrally on issues relating to sex, love, and the relationship between them; to sexual jealousy, traced through four major plays; 'Sexual Experience'; and 'Whores and Saints'. A final chapter, 'Just Good Friends' examines Shakespeare's rendering of same-genderrelationships.

A - F.

Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book A - F. written by Gordon Williams and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Looking for Sex in Shakespeare

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521540391
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Looking for Sex in Shakespeare written by Stanley Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Wells is one of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespeare scholars. His new book, written with characteristic verve and accessibility, considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing is a matter of interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearean bawdy and innuendo from eighteenth-century editors to recent scholars and critics, Wells pays special attention to recent sexually orientated studies of A Midsummer Night's Dream, once regarded as the most innocent of its author's plays. He considers the Sonnets, some of which are addressed to a man, and asks whether they imply same-sex desire in the author, or are quasi-dramatic projections of the writer's imagination. Finally, he looks at how male-to-male relationships in the plays have been interpreted as sexual in both criticism and performance. Stanley Wells's lively, provocative, and open-minded new book will appeal to a broad readership of students, theatregoers and Shakespeare lovers.

Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution

Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847141455
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution written by Gordon Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how the sexual element in Shakespeare's works is complicated and compromised by the impact of print. Whether the issue is one of censorship and evasion or sexual redefinition, the fact that Shakespeare wrote in the first century of popular print is crucial. Out of the newly-accessible classical canon he creates a reconstituted idea of the sexual temptress; and out of the Counter-Reformation propaganda he fashions his own complex thinking about the prostitute. Shakespeare's theatrical scripts, meeting-ground fro the spoken and written word, contribute powerfully to those socio-sexual debates which had been re-energized by print.

Words and phrases that are to do with sex in literary and spoken English - Responses to offending language from the eighteenth and nineteenth century

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Author : Thomas Eger
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 363851028X
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (385 download)

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Book Synopsis Words and phrases that are to do with sex in literary and spoken English - Responses to offending language from the eighteenth and nineteenth century by : Thomas Eger

Download or read book Words and phrases that are to do with sex in literary and spoken English - Responses to offending language from the eighteenth and nineteenth century written by Thomas Eger and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Bielefeld University, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In his book "Dr. Bowdler's Legacy" Noel Perrin tells us in the first chapter that a big change of morality took place with the turn of the nineteenth century in England. He puts it as follows: "... the first new generation of the nineteenth century (grew) up more strait-laced, inhibited, and conventional than its parents, so that sons discussed their fathers' wild oaths, and daughters worried about their mothers' loose sexual behaviour." According to Perrin one of the cornerstones of this new way of thinking was that the people began to acquire a more reserved attitude towards sexuality. The chief cause of this tendency was what can be called the rise of the idea of delicacy, or "the new prudery". From the middle of the eighteenth century onwards, delicacy came to be regarded as a special and precious characteristic - especially among women. Basically, it means that people felt offended as soon as they were confronted with sexuality in whatever form. Blushing and fainting were outward indicators of this new propriety. Another consequence was that people began to keep away from anything that might be a burden on their conscience. An important result of this trend was the emergence of the idea of expurgation in literature. That is people simply started to remove "words or scenes that were considered likely to offend or shock". The pioneering work in this field was Dr. Bowdler's "Family Shakespeare", which was published in 1807. Dr. Bowdler's aim was - according to the fashion of his time - "to exclude from this publication whatever is unfit to be read aloud by a gentleman to a company of ladies". In another passage he says that he wants to enable a father to read one of Shakespeare's plays to his family circle "without incurring the danger of falling unawares among words and expressions which are of such a nature as to raise a blush on the cheek of modesty ...". As he says in the preface to the first edition, Bowdler was primarily concerned with profanity and obscenity. In this essay I will constrict myself to the field of obscenity in its sexual dimension. In the first part of my paper I will watch a Victorian at work by examining Bowdler's version of "Romeo and Juliet" and comparing it to Shakespeare's. What kind of words and passages does he change and in what way does he revise them? Does he treat different terms in different ways?

Stylistics and Shakespeare's Language

Author : Mireille Ravassat
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441184279
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Stylistics and Shakespeare's Language written by Mireille Ravassat and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivating vistas of investigation. Transcending old boundaries between literary and linguistic studies, this engaging collaborative book comes up with an original array of theoretical approaches and new findings. The chapters in the collection capture a rich diversity of points of view and cover such fields as lexicography, versification, dramaturgy, rhetorical analyses, cognitive and computational corpus-based stylistic studies, offering a holistic vision of Shakespeare's uses of language. The perspective is deliberately broad, confronting ideas and visions at the intersection of various techniques of textual investigation. Such novel explorations of Shakespeare's multifarious artistry and amazing inventiveness in his use of language will cater for a broad range of readers, from undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars and researchers, to poetry and theatre lovers alike.

A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their Significance

Author : Frankie Rubinstein
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312126773
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their Significance by : Frankie Rubinstein

Download or read book A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their Significance written by Frankie Rubinstein and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1989-12-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...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.

Shakespeare and Sexuality

Author : Catherine M. S. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521804752
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Sexuality written by Catherine M. S. Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws together ten important essays which explore the significance of sexuality in Shakespeare's work.

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

Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature: Q-Z written by Gordon Williams and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Shakespeare's Language in Digital Media

Author : Janelle Jenstad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317056108
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Language in Digital Media written by Janelle Jenstad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this book ask how digital research tools are changing the ways in which practicing editors historicize Shakespeare's language. Scholars now encounter, interpret, and disseminate Shakespeare's language through an increasing variety of digital resources, including online editions such as the Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE), searchable lexical corpora such as the Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) or the Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) collections, high-quality digital facsimiles such as the Folger Shakespeare Library's Digital Image Collection, text visualization tools such as Voyant, apps for reading and editing on mobile devices, and more. What new insights do these tools offer about the ways Shakespeare's words made meaning in their own time? What kinds of historical or historicizing arguments can digital editions make about Shakespeare's language? A growing body of work in the digital humanities allows textual critics to explore new approaches to editing in digital environments, and enables language historians to ask and answer new questions about Shakespeare's words. The authors in this unique book explicitly bring together the two fields of textual criticism and language history in an exploration of the ways in which new tools are expanding our understanding of Early Modern English.

Shakespeare, Sex, and Love

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614696
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Sex, and Love written by Stanley Wells and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of Shakespeare and members of his family. He also provides a fascinating account of depictions of sexuality in the poetry of the period and suggests that at the time Shakespeare was writing most of his non-dramatic verse a group of poets catered especially for readers with homoerotic tastes. The second part of Shakespeare, Sex, - and Love focuses on the variety of ways in which Shakespeare treats sexuality in his plays and at how he relates sexuality to love. Wells shows that Shakespeare's attitude to sex developed over the course of his writing career, and devotes whole chapters to 'The Fun of Sex' - to how he raises laughter out of the matter of sex in both the language and the plotting of some of his comedies; portrayals of sexual desire; to Romeo and Juliet as the play in which Shakespeare focuses most centrally on issues relating to sex, love, and the relationship between them; to sexual jealousy, traced through four major plays; 'Sexual Experience'; and 'Whores and Saints'. A final chapter, 'Just Good Friends' examines Shakespeare's rendering of same-gender relationships.

Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare

Author : Michael Saenger
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773596909
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare written by Michael Saenger and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Languages have become more mobile than ever before, producing translations, transplantations, and cohabitations of all kinds. The early modern period also witnessed profound linguistic transformation, but in very different ways. Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare undoes the illusion that Shakespeare wrote in what we now think of as English. In a series of essays approaching Shakespeare from unique and thought-provoking perspectives, contributors from history, performance criticism, and comparative literature look at "interlinguicity," the condition of being between languages, and "internationality," the condition of being between countries. Each essay focuses on local issues, such as community identification in the Netherlands of Shakespeare’s time and the appropriation of Shakespeare in German literature in the nineteenth century, to suggest that Shakespeare never wrote "in" English because English was not then, nor is it now, an intact, knowable system. Many languages existed in sixteenth-century London, and English did not have clear limits. Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare helps to explain the hybridity that Shakespeare embraced in all his writing. Contributors include Paula Blank (College of William and Mary), Lauren Coker (Saint Louis University), Brian Gingrich (Princeton University), Alexa Huang (George Washington University), James Loehlin (University of Texas at Austin), Scott Newstok (Rhodes College), Patricia Parker (Stanford University), Elizabeth Pentland (York University), Philip Schwyzer (University of Exeter), Gary Waite (University of New Brunswick), and Robert N. Watson (University of California, Los Angeles)

Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare

Author : W. Reginald Rampone Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare by : W. Reginald Rampone Jr.

Download or read book Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare written by W. Reginald Rampone Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the important themes of sexuality, gender, love, and marriage in stage, literary, and film treatments of Shakespeare's plays. The theme of sexuality is often integral to Shakespeare's works and therefore merits a thorough exploration. Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare begins with descriptions of sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome, medieval England, and early-modern Europe and England, then segues into examinations of the role of sexuality in Shakespeare's plays and poetry, and also in film and stage productions of his plays. The author employs various theoretical approaches to establish detailed interpretations of Shakespeare's plays and provides excerpts from several early-modern marriage manuals to illustrate the typical gender roles of the time. The book concludes with bibliographies that students of Shakespeare will find invaluable for further study.