Shakespeare's Bawdy | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Colman, E. A. M. “Verbal Gymnastics.” In The Dramatic Use of Bawdy in Shakespeare, pp. 35-46. London: Longman, 1974.
Traces Shakespeare's development of bawdy from easy crowd pleaser to the use of bawdy as an integral part of characterization and plot.
Cummings, Peter. “The Making of Meaning: Sex Words and Sex Acts in Shakespeare's Othello.” The Gettysburg Review 3, no. 1 (winter 1990): 75-80.
Considers Shakespeare's unsurpassed contributions to the language of love and sex.
———. “Shakespeare's Bawdy Planet.” Sewanee Review 101, no. 4 (fall 1993): 521-35.
Examines what Shakespeare's use of bawdy reveals about Elizabethan society.
Franke, Wolfgang. “The Logic of Double Entendre in A Midsummer-Night's Dream.” Philological Quarterly 58, no. 3 (summer 1980): 282-97.
Contends that the characters...
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