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Despite the richness of Shakespeare's sexual language (his work includes no fewer than 150 puns for female genitals, and 180 for male genitalia), scant attention has been paid to it until now. Filthy Shakespeare offers more than 70 examples of the Bard at his bawdiest, arranged under 23 sexual categories. Each filthy passage is 'translated' into modern English and the hidden sexual meanings of the words explained in a glossary.
In a lively and rumbustious introduction, author Pauline Kiernan shows how Shakespeare's predilection for rude punning had its roots in the social and political reality of Elizabethan England, where the brutal facts of life were often described by figures of speech to distance or disguise them, and where the network of government spies meant that covert communication was, for some, a matter of life and death.
Filthy Shakespeare is not just the quirkiest, dirtiest and funniest gift book of the year, it also offers fascinating and surprising insights into the richness and complexity of Shakespeare's world and Shakespeare's language.
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'An erudite interpreter with the great advantage of being a dramatist ... will change the way the world see Shakespeare' Joseph Strick, Film Producer/Director.
'Glorious. A new perspective on Shakespeare's matchless wordplay. You have changed the way people think about Shakespeare. A miniature masterpiece' Stephen Bayley, (an Observer Book of the Year).
'Kiernan is a pukka scholar. Her method might be called sexegesis. It's as if a lady professor were to arrive on the lecture platform in a shocking pink bikini' Bevis Hillier, The Spectator.
'Should have readers moaning in delight ... an analysis of the Bard's sexual language in the best scholarly tradition, but it's also a great beach read ... Entertaining and outlandish, an important addition to Shakespeareana. You won't look at Shakespeare the same way again' Life and Times of Utica, New York.
'A remarkable and fascinating book' The Stage.
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'Glorious. A new perspective on Shakespeare's matchless wordplay. You have changed the way people think about Shakespeare. A miniature masterpiece' Stephen Bayley, (an Observer Book of the Year).
'Kiernan is a pukka scholar. Her method might be called sexegesis. It's as if a lady professor were to arrive on the lecture platform in a shocking pink bikini' Bevis Hillier, The Spectator.
'Should have readers moaning in delight ... an analysis of the Bard's sexual language in the best scholarly tradition, but it's also a great beach read ... Entertaining and outlandish, an important addition to Shakespeareana. You won't look at Shakespeare the same way again' Life and Times of Utica, New York.
'A remarkable and fascinating book' The Stage.
Reviews for Filthy Shakespeare:
Kiernan is a pukka scholar . . . She finds sex in more or less everything:
her method might be called sexegesis. Not everybody will be convinced by
all the salacities she discerns in Shakespeare's language, but I hope she
won't misinterpret me if I say she makes a good fist of it - The Spectator
Kiernan is a pukka scholar . . . She finds sex in more or less everything:
her method might be called sexegesis. Not everybody will be convinced by
all the salacities she discerns in Shakespeare's language, but I hope she
won't misinterpret me if I say she makes a good fist of it - The Spectator
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- PublisherQuercus Publishing
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1847240739
- ISBN 13 9781847240736
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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