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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Randy Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Bawdy: A Literary and Psychological Essay and a Comprehensive Glossary, by Eric Partridge (PB, 1969, $1.75)

Partridge is described as a leading lexicographer, and I believe it.  His "comprehensive glossary"  takes up 170 pages. He informs us of  both the non-sexual "bawdy", or the merely vulgar words, as well as the truly "sexual bawdy". These word's meanings are not the ones I learned in high school, but I suspect they were the ones Shakespeare meant. The audiences at the Globe would not have been very high-brow.

 Look for this book next to the Shakespear's plays, avail. 9/27.