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

Folger bibliographic ID: 245440
Folger call number: PR428.S48 S76 2011
Folger holdings ID: 312168

General 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

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

English literature English drama (Comedy) Sex in literature Human body in literature Sodomy in literature Feces in literature Anus (Psychology) Psychoanalysis and literature

author: Stockton, Will