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A dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart literature / / Gordon Williams



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Autore: Williams Gordon <1935-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: A dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart literature / / Gordon Williams Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey : , : Athlone Press, , 1994
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1649 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/3538/09031
Soggetto topico: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700
English language - Early modern, 1500-1700
Sex symbolism
Sex in literature
Sex
Figures of speech
Erotic literature, English
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; How to use the Dictionary; Abbreviations; Volume I: A-F; Volume II: G-P; Volume III: Q-Z; Bibliography
Sommario/riassunto: 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 illumi
Titolo autorizzato: A dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart literature  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-29166-8
9786611291662
1-84714-256-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826710703321
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Serie: Athlone Shakespeare Dictionary