Gabriel Conroy vs Shakespeare's bawdy: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Gabriel Conroy Gabriel Conroy Bret Harte · 1875 ★★★☆☆ 3.5 466 pages · ≈ 8 h 38 m · Challenging

Novel of an honest young miner in the mountains and his family and troubles.

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Cover of Shakespeare's bawdy Shakespeare's bawdy Eric Partridge · 1947 226 pages · ≈ 4 h 11 m · Demanding
“Among the most generally interesting and particularly provocative books upon Shakespeare since (say) 1925 are Dover Wilson's magistral edition of Shakespeare's Works, H. GranvilleBarker's brilliant Prefaces, G. Wilson Knight's profound studies, Hugh Kingsmill's thoughtful The Return of William Shakespeare, Chambers's authoritative William Shakespeare, and, in another order, Kenneth Muir & Sean O'L”

This classic work fully explains the whole range of sexual, scatological language and allusion in Shakespeare's works. Consisting of an alphabetical glossary with cross-references, this book helps the modern reader to…

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Ratings 52 —
Editions 26 21
Citations — 78
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read 50 —
Reading it now 17 —
Written reviews 4 —
Wikipedia attention 4454 —
Pages 466 226

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