Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, in Three Volumes (

出版者:Athlone Press

作者:Gordon Williams

页数:1500

出版时间:1994-12

价格:USD 699.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780485113938

图书标签:詩學詩莎士比亞英文戲劇性工具書

Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden. Gordon Williams has also published "Coriolanus" (a Macmillan Master Guide, 1987); and "Macbeth" (a Macmillan Text and Performance book, 1985).