Shakespeare's Bawdy (平装)

出版时间：1990年10月  出版社：3 (1990年10月25日)  作者：Eric Partridge  

内容概要

When Shakespeare's plays were first performed, they were popular  with everyone: they weren't classics yet or a requisite course to be  suffered. The stories were good entertainment for the masses, with a bawdy streak  a mile wide. Certainly Shakespeare's depth and insight into human nature  was appreciated, but surely some came just for the dirt. Shakespeare's contemporaries   didn't need a glossary to get the jokes, but we do. Thank goodness for Eric  Partridge's dictionary of Elizabethan smut, so we can get the double-entendres, too. Thus, "hardening   of one's brows" (The Winter's Tale) refers  to being cuckolded, "laced mutton" (Two Gentleman of Verona) is a  prostitute, "riggish" (Cleopatra) means lascivious, and "groping for  trout in a peculiar river" (Measure for Measure) means copulating with a  woman. With an essay on the sexual, homosexual, and nonsexual bawdy in  Shakespeare, an index to the essay, and a full glossary of bawdry, Partridge  puts the nudge and wink back in Shakespeare.