Stockton, Will.

Playing dirty sexuality and waste in early modern comedy / [electronic resource] : Will Stockton. - Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2011. - xxvi, 175 p. : ill.

Includes 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.

9780816676743 (electronic bk.)




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


Electronic books.

PR428.S48 / S76 2011