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Overview"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. Gordon Williams has also published ""Coriolanus"" (a Macmillan Master Guide, 1987); and ""Macbeth"" (a Macmillan Text and Performance book, 1985)." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gordon WilliamsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 12.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 2.898kg ISBN: 9780485113938ISBN 10: 0485113937 Pages: 1500 Publication Date: 01 December 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsAn indispensable resource...an immense repository of data about sexual folklore and sexual practices. --Times Higher Education Supplement Author InformationGordon Williams is Reader in English at the University of Wales, Lampeter. Previous books include A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature (3 vols, Athlone, 1994) and Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution (Athlone, 1996). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |