Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns - Couverture rigide

Kiernan, Pauline

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1592403271 ISBN 13 : 9781592403271

Editeur : Gotham Books, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Kiernan Pauline

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Pauline Kiernan spent 10 years in London as a journalist before studying at the University of Oxford, where she took a doctorate in Shakespeare, and went on to teach at several colleges there. Dr. Kiernan is a screenwriter, an award-winning playwright, and a Shakespeare scholar. She is also a creative writing consultant, journalist, and speaker.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gotham Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1592403271
• ISBN 13: 9781592403271
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 303
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible