Playing dirty
Subtitle: sexuality and waste in early modern comedy
By: Will Stockton
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780816674596; 9780816666072
Subjects: History and criticism; Psychoanalysis and literature; Sodomy in literature; English literature; Anus (Psychology); Feces in literature; English drama (Comedy); Human body in literature; Sex in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The wandering anus: Ben Jonson, John Harington, and humanist homopoetics; title: Shakespeare's ass: The merry wives of Windsor and the butt of the joke; title: Happy endings: healing sick desires in All's well that ends well; title: Happy endings II: The unfortunate traveller, the "frenzy of the visible," and the comedy of anti-semitism; title: The pardoner's dirty breeches: cynicism and kynicism in The Canterbury tales.