Shakespeare's bawdy /
Eric Partridge.
- 4th ed.
- [S.l.] : Routledge, 2001.
- 304 p. ; 20 cm.
- Routledge classics. .
- Routledge classics. .
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.