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- Title
Shakespeare's "Bawdy".
- Authors
DIGANGI, MARIO
- Abstract
The article explores the word "bawdy" as depiction of erotic pleasures in the work of English writer William Shakespeare including the play "Measure for Measure." Topics include the association between the pleasure and the sexual and economic exploitation of women, ways certain uses of the word bawdy function through a kind of corporeal imprecision, and bawdy's ability to signify boundless sexual contamination such as Diomedes' denunciation of Helen in "Troilus and Cressida."
- Subjects
SEXUAL excitement; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; MEASURE for Measure (Play : Shakespeare); SEX crimes; DENUNCIATION (Criminal law)
- Publication
Shakespeare Studies (Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation), 2015, Vol 43, p131
- ISSN
0582-9399
- Publication type
Article