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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Shakespeare's Bawdy about Shakespeare's, Shakespeare, English with the genre: Literature & Fiction, History & Criticism.
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conversations.value: This unusual and invaluable contribution to Shakespearean scholarship is a thorough examination of the "bawdy" in Shakespeare's works from the literary, psychological and lexicographical standpoints. Scholars and intelligent readers and interpreters of Shakespeare have always been aware of the large number of bawdy references throughout his plays and poems, but even they probably have not fully comprehended the wealth of hidden allusion and multiple meanings in many seemingly obvious passages. Shakespeare's Bawdy is divided into two parts. The first section is an essay with illustrative examples of the non-sexual, sexual, homosexual, general and valedictory references in the plays. The second part is a comprehensive glossary alphabetically arranged which cites all the significant and important passages with full definitions and explanations of the terms used by Shakespeare. The author, the author, is the well-known English scholar and lexicographer and a world authority on slang and colloquial English. "A fascinating study in semantics and immensely revelatory."Margaret Webster
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conversations.value: Provide the first five paragraphs for this book.. Start with the sentence 'Shakespeare's Bawdy
  If Shakespearean criticism had not so largely been in the hands of academics and cranks, a study of Shakespeare's attitude towards sex and his use of the broad jest would probably have appeared at any time since 1918'.
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conversations.value: Shakespeare's Bawdy
  If Shakespearean criticism had not so largely been in the hands of academics and cranks, a study of Shakespeare's attitude towards sex and his use of the broad jest would probably have appeared at any time since 1918. 'Pederasts and pedants have been the curse of Shakespearean biography and criticism' (Hesketh Pearson, 1942): the academic critics (except Professors Dover Wilson and G. Wilson Knight) have, in the main and for most of the time, ignored the questions of homosexuality, sex, bawdiness: with one or two notable exceptions, they have been pitiably inadequate. The non-academic critics have done better on the homosexuality, but none of them has dealt fully, or even satisfactorily, with the normal sexuality and the bawdiness. As I am neither pederast nor pedant, I may be able to throw some light upon a neglected, yet very important, aspect of Shakespeare's character and art.
  In order to avoid a too tedious catalogue-effect in the Essay, I have compiled a Glossary of such terms as fall 'within the meaning of the Act'. This Glossary will, I hope, have a value beyond that of a list, however comprehensive; even a value beyond that of the usual conscientious glossary.
  The verse-numbering is that of The Shakespeare Head edition, which possesses the merit of presenting the plays in their chronological order.
  All this is almost what Shakespeare himself might have said for he knew what he was about in his plays and his poems; knew, too, that his work would survive. He sometimes regretted making himself 'a motley to the view' in his role of actor: he never expressed a doubt of posterity's opinion of his writings; he had good reason not to fret on that score.
  No writer of even half the stature of Shakespeare could doubt that posterity would correctly appraise his worth; although perhaps only a second Shakespeare could adequately evaluate William Shakespeare. Much has been written about his 'universal mind'. But what of his universal soul, his universal sympathy, his universal manhood?
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conversations.value: Thence we pass to such animal-kingdom terms as have not been included in the preceding paragraph: **beast** , **beastly** , **bestial** ; **billing** , **bird's nest** , **cuckoo** , **guinea-hen** , **hen** , **quail** , **sparrows** , **strange fowl** ; **bitch** and **make the beast with two backs** ; these other copulatory verbs, **change the cod's head for the salmon's tail** , **cover** , **jump** , **leap** , **ram** , **serve** , **tread** , **tup** ; **fish** (n.) and **mackerel** ; **bull Jove** ; **ram** and **Aries** ; **goats** and **goatish** ; **piss one's tallow** and **stale** (n., sense 2); **scut** and **tail** ; **whale**.
  And lastly the domestic (and social) entries: **apron** , **mountant** ; **aunt** ; **bathe in water** and **cock** and **sluice** ; **bauble** ; **beef** and **flesh** and **mutton** (cf. **laced mutton** ); to **eat** and to **feed** (and **feeder** ); **stomach** ; **bolster...** , **buried...** , **down-bed** , **sheet** ; **chamber-lie** and **jakes** ; **bona roba** , **ruff** , **shift** , **smock** , and **unlace** ; **placket** and **cod-piece** ; **broach** and **fill a bottle...** ; **burn** and **dish** (cf. **clack-dish** ) and **relish** and **running banquet** ; **malady** and **catching of cold** and **salve** ; **dance...** ; **dial** ; **ring** and **jewel** ; **distaff** and **spin off** ; **pen** and **pin** ; **tool** and **yard** ; **pipe** (?) and **tub** ; **stair-work** and **trunk-work**.
  The frequenter of brothels is a **whoremaster** , **whoremonger** , or **fleshmonger**. A womanizer is a **bed-presser** or **chamberer** ; a **blower-up** or **underminer** ; a **bull** or **town-bull** ; a **coiner** ; a **copesmate** or **skains-mate** ; a **diver** ; a **doer** ; a **feeder** ; a **juggler** ; a **lecher** or **libertine** ; a **mandrake** ; and a **mouse-hunt**.
  A brothel keeper is a **bad woman** (cf. **naughty house** ), a **bawd** (much the commonest term, ca. 1580–1840) or a **parcel-bawd** (or 'part-timer'); specifically she is **Madame Mitigation** or **Mistress Overdone**.
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conversations.value: Provide the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: For the sadistic semantics, cf. **clap, cope, fuck, hit, throw down, thump;** also cf. **stuprum,** q.v.
  Cf. **honey,** q.v., the entry at **pluck,** and also the semantically equivalent **bliss.** See also **sweetness.**
  In short, take advantage of opportunity and, at any sign of yielding, to press home one's advantage. A part of the time-honoured myth of man the pursuer, woman the pursued.
  To play the virginal (a square, legless spinet): to play with her fingers upon his palm as though upon the notes of that musical instrument. For other musico-sexual metaphors, see quotations at **fingering** and **penetrate.**
  The last four lines, superficially univocal, are yet, on a closer examination, equivocal enough. I have, however, refrained from pointing out every word or phrase that is possibly sexual.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: I have, however, refrained from pointing out every word or phrase that is possibly sexual. **clap, cope, fuck, hit, throw down, thump;** also cf. **stuprum,** q.v.
  Cf. **honey,** q.v., the entry at **pluck,** and also the semantically equivalent **bliss.** See also **sweetness.**
  In short, take advantage of opportunity and, at any sign of yielding, to press home one's advantage. A part of the time-honoured myth of man the pursuer, woman the pursued.
  To play the virginal (a square, legless spinet): to play with her fingers upon his palm as though upon the notes of that musical instrument. For other musico-sexual metaphors, see quotations at **fingering** and **penetrate.**
  The last four lines, superficially univocal, are yet, on a closer examination, equivocal enough.For the sadistic semantics, cf.