ABSTRACT

This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The main body of the work consists of an alphabetical glossary of all words and phrases used in a sexual or scatological sense, with full explanations and cross-references.

chapter 1|8 pages

INTRODUCTORY

chapter 2|4 pages

NON-SEXUAL BAWDY

chapter 3|6 pages

HOMOSEXUAL

chapter 4|34 pages

SEXUAL

chapter 5|6 pages

GENERAL

chapter 6|2 pages

VALEDICTORY