03046nam 2200721 450 991045410160332120200520144314.01-281-29166-897866112916621-84714-256-7(CKB)1000000000754748(EBL)437023(OCoLC)609838761(SSID)ssj0000293950(PQKBManifestationID)11229830(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293950(PQKBWorkID)10303154(PQKB)10949538(MiAaPQ)EBC437023(Au-PeEL)EBL437023(CaPaEBR)ebr11235640(CaONFJC)MIL129166(EXLCZ)99100000000075474820181002d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart literature /Gordon WilliamsLondon ;Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey :Athlone Press,1994.1 online resource (1649 p.)Athlone Shakespeare DictionaryDescription based upon print version of record.0-485-11393-7 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Introduction; How to use the Dictionary; Abbreviations; Volume I: A-F; Volume II: G-P; Volume III: Q-Z; BibliographyProviding 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 illumiAthlone Shakespeare DictionaryEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700DictionariesEnglish languageEarly modern, 1500-1700Glossaries, vocabularies, etcSex symbolismDictionariesSex in literatureDictionariesSexTerminologyFigures of speechDictionariesErotic literature, EnglishDictionariesElectronic books.English literatureEnglish languageSex symbolismSex in literatureSexFigures of speechErotic literature, English820.9/3538/09031Williams Gordon1935-902628MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454101603321A dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart literature2189545UNINA