Filthy Shakespeare
Subtitle: Shakespeare's most outrageous sexual puns
By: Pauline Kiernan
Edition: 1st trade pbk. [ed.].
Publisher: Gotham Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781592404018
Subjects: Puns and punning in literature; Quotations; Criticism and interpretation; Sex in literature
Description: In the puritanical climate of Elizabethan England, Shakespeare became a master of the double entendre, crafting lines and scenes that unfolded in a variety of meanings. Filthy Shakespeare presents more than seventy examples of the bard at his raunchiest, with each passage translated into modern English and the hidden meanings of the original words explained.
Notes: Includes index.

"Previously published in Great Britain in 2006 by Quercus and in 2007 as a Gotham Books hardcover edition"--T.p. verso.