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Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns
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Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns Paperback - 2008

by Pauline Kiernan

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Celebrating the Bard in all his bawdy glory, this volume takes a hilarious and insightful look into the down-and-dirty sexual puns lurking in Shakespeare's body of work, presenting more than 70 examples translated into modern English.

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  • Title Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns
  • Author Pauline Kiernan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Gotham, New York
  • Date 2008-10-07
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG1592404014
  • ISBN 9781592404018 / 1592404014
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.78 x 5.12 x 0.84 in (19.76 x 13.00 x 2.13 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.33

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Summary

Celebrating the Bard in all his bawdy glory, an eminent scholar puts the spotlight on the down-and-dirty sexual puns lurking in Shakespeare?s work.

Everyone knows of his matchless understanding of the human condition, but we have been deprived for centuries of the full extent of one of Shakespeare?s most brilliant dramatic devices. Restoring the saucy, often shocking meanings that lie beneath his words, Filthy Shakespeare gives modern readers a tour of the brothels, buggery, trannies, pimps, pricks, and other tawdry references populating his best-known works. The tension between sexual wordplay and politics provides a captivating historical backdrop, while the fascinating facts about life in Will?s England make us see his masterworks in their gritty authenticity.

Revealing and riotously funny, Filthy Shakespeare is the perfect gift for anyone who wants to rediscover the master of the sexual pun at his most inventive.

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'This jaw-dropping, giggle-inducing text proved both the Bard'senduring relevance and the fact that today's most popularentertainment isn't nearly as debased as some might think.'
Publishers Weekly

'A romp of a read.'
Associated Press

About the author

Pauline Kiernan spent 10 years in London as a journalist before studying at the University of Oxford, where she took a doctorate in Shakespeare, and went on to teach at several colleges there. Dr. Kiernan is a screenwriter, an award-winning playwright, and a Shakespeare scholar. She is also a creative writing consultant, journalist, and speaker.