Author: RUBINSTEIN, FRANKIE.
Title: A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance.
Description: Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. 0333488660. Second edition. "This dictionary examines previously unnoted puns on the erotic attitudes andpractices of the heterosexual and homosexual, the sexual deviant, and the impotent. It includes scatological puns in their usually bawdy contexts and ethnic puns, as sexually snide as now..It heightens our awareness of Shakespeare's words, their Elizabethan connotations and their contemporary validity." 23.5cms x 15.5cms. Pp.xxiv/372, slight toning to endpapers. Paperback, minor crease to spine. VG.

Keywords: Rubinstein Dictionary Shakespeare Sexual Puns Significance Literature Language Heterosexual Homosexual Deviant Impotent Scatological Bawdy Ethnic Sexually Snide Elizabethan 49092 Literature


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