Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns
by Pauline Kiernan
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1592403271
- ISBN 13
- 9781592403271
- Seller
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About This Item
1st US ed. / 1st printing. VG book / VG DJ. Used copy, light foxing to top textblock, else very tight and clean textblock and boards with full numberline. DJ has light shelfwear, no tears or chipping and 19.99 price intact. Not remaindered.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Backwater Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio23
- Title
- Filthy Shakespeare
- Author
- Pauline Kiernan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First ed., First printing
- ISBN 10
- 1592403271
- ISBN 13
- 9781592403271
- Publisher
- Gotham Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 303
- Keywords
- First Edition
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