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Author:

Stockton, Will.

Title:

Playing dirty : sexuality and waste in early modern comedy / Will Stockton.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xxvi, 175 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
English drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.
Sex in literature.
Human body in literature.
Sodomy in literature.
Feces in literature.
Anus (Psychology)
Psychoanalysis and literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- The wandering anus: Ben Jonson, John Harington, and humanist homopoetics -- Shakespeare's ass: The merry wives of Windsor and the butt of the joke -- Happy endings: healing sick desires in All's well that ends well -- Happy endings II: The unfortunate traveller, the "frenzy of the visible," and the comedy of anti-semitism -- The pardoner's dirty breeches: cynicism and kynicism in The Canterbury tales.

ISBN:

0816666075 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816666072 (pb : alk. paper)
0816674590 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816674596 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)654083603

LCCN:

2010032608

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)