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Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns | 
 enlarge | Author: Pauline Kiernan
Publisher: Gotham
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 756447
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1592404014
Dewey Decimal Number: 814
EAN: 9781592404018
ASIN: 1592404014
Publication Date: October 7, 2008
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Product Description
Celebrating the Bard in all his bawdy glory, an eminent scholar puts the spotlight on the down-and-dirty sexual puns lurking in Shakespeares work.
Everyone knows of his matchless understanding of the human condition, but we have been deprived for centuries of the full extent of one of Shakespeares most brilliant dramatic devices. Restoring the saucy, often shocking meanings that lie beneath his words, Filthy Shakespeare gives modern readers a tour of the brothels, buggery, trannies, pimps, pricks, and other tawdry references populating his best-known works. The tension between sexual wordplay and politics provides a captivating historical backdrop, while the fascinating facts about life in Wills England make us see his masterworks in their gritty authenticity.
Revealing and riotously funny, Filthy Shakespeare is the perfect gift for anyone who wants to rediscover the master of the sexual pun at his most inventive.
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 Pauline Kiernan's Most Outrageous Misinterpretations November 21, 2008
This book appears to be well-researched and accurate if you've never read any of these plays. Some of the puns are obvious enough, but Kiernan really goes over the top on the rest(mostly taking passages out if context), even going so far as to suggest that Iago and Roderigo have a homosexual relationship. The book is self-consciously vulgar, attempting to surprise rather than to inform. Sure, Shakespeare had an incredibly filthy mind, but it seems that Kiernan has one far filthier.
 Marvellous July 19, 2008
Dr Kiernan has unearthed centuries of censorship to reveal to us how Shakespeare used his plays, Sonnets and extended poems to make very serious comments about the political, philosophical and sociologically important issues of his time, many of which still have bearings on society today. The book works on several levels. On a more basic level it is entertaining for the casual reader whilst at a more, perhaps, sophisticated level provides serious textual analysis, from a Shakespearean Scholar from the University of Oxford, for the more scholarly reader.
Thoroughly recommended!
Wow! January 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a way cool book.
Yes, it's a bit over the top, but it's also an introduction to the subject, and it doesn't pretend to be comprehensive, either.
Dr. Freud would have had a field day in Shakespeare's London. As did Shakespeare. I never dreamed there were so many layers of meaning in Shakespeare's texts. I knew about a few of these examples, but I never realized quite how explicit some of the sonnets were. In fact, this book would have helped me write my document [dissertation, only shorter], only I didn't discover it until I was done.
Way to go, Dr. Kiernan!
Fantastically Filthy December 30, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Saw this @ Barnes and Noble and was intrigued - I had read about Shakespears's puns in another book. I think it's great that someone is trying to show the dual meanings in so many of Shakespeare's famous scenes. Loved it!
FIVE STARS November 2, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
The great strength of Filthy Shakespeare is that is has been written by a Shakespeare scholar who is also a dramatist. Dr. Kiernan shows that Shakespeare often used sexual puns as a serious dramatic device for important issues such as morality, politics, and war. Some of the best parts of the book are where she demonstrates how Shakespeare used sexual puns to intensify the the dramatic impact of the scene. The introduction which describes the social and political world of the playwright is excellent. This is an important book. It will be appreciated not just by playgoers and readers of the plays but by all Shakespeare actors and directors.
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