Shakespeare's bawdy vs The joys of Yiddish: Which Should You Read?

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…

The joys of Yiddish Leo Calvin Rosten · 1968 ★★★★☆ 4.2 533 pages · ≈ 9 h 52 m · Moderate

Do you know when to cry Mazel tov -- and when to avoid it like the plague? Did you know that Oy! is not a word, but a vocabulary with 29 distinct variations, sighed, cried, howled, or moaned, employed to express…