Playing dirty [electronic resource] : sexuality and waste in early modern comedy / Will Stockton.
Material type: TextPublication details: Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2011Description: xxvi, 175 p. : illISBN: 9780816676743 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: PR428.S48 | S76 2011Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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