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Bezig met laden... Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns (2006)door Pauline Kiernan
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Enlightening and entertaining. Each excerpt is set in context. Then it is given in the original language, and then in the "unmasked" language that states what the author sets forth as the "real meaning" of the passage - with footnotes. I found it funny and plausible...but I had to read it in short sessions. So much filth and obscenity was too mind-numbing for prolonged reading. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Explores the meaning and significance of sexually loaded passages and references from some of Shakespeare's most popular poems and plays, and offers comparisons of passages in the original language and the modern English vernacular. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)822.33Literature English English drama Elizabethan 1558-1625 Shakespeare, William 1564–1616LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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You will after you read this little book.
This was a fun read, if a bit on the shallow side. The points the author makes and the examples she uses were all interesting, but none of them were explored as far as I would have liked. Many of the plays were not touched on at all (What of Beatrice and Benadick's marvelous banter? If ever language was loaded with sex, it had to be theirs, yet the go unmentioned in the entire book).
I'm actually curious to know if there is another book by this author out there somewhere that does more than just pick the jokes with the most potential chance to attract mainstream attention. Although it has a scholarly basis, it is not really a scholarly work and won't replace one. Still, it was fun and fast to read. ( )