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Courtesans and Cuckolds A Glossary of Renaissance Dramatic Bawdy
By James T. Henke
Copyright 1979
370 Pages
by
Routledge
370 Pages
by
Routledge
370 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title, first published in 1979, is a glossary of the bawdy vocabulary that was used in Renaissance Drama. One of the primary functions of this gloss of literary bawdy is to interpret imaginative uses of the language rather than simply record the generally accepted uses and meanings, with its principal task to make the dialogue of the plays more intelligible to the reader. With examples of... Read more
Acknowledgements; Preface; Note to the User of This Gloss; List of Abbreviations of Plays Glossed; List of Abbreviations of Works Cited in the Gloss; Introduction; Glossary; Cross-Index of Gloss Entries of Play; Bibliographies
Biography
James T. Henke
