18 books like Shakespeare's bawdy

What to read after Shakespeare's bawdy — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Gabriel Conroy Bret Harte · 1875 · 466p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Novel of an honest young miner in the mountains and his family and troubles. Shares: Glossaries, Language, Dictionaries

The joys of Yiddish Leo Calvin Rosten · 1968 · ★ 4.3 · 533p · ≈ 17h · 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 anything from ecstasy to horror? Here are words heard 'round the English-speaking world: chutzpa, or gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, "...that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed… Shares: Glossaries, English language

Hávamál · 1986 · 157p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Hávamál er kvæði úr eddukvæðum. Hávamál merkir mál hins háa, en hinn hái er Óðinn og er kvæðið lífsspeki hans, og inniheldur hvortveggja hvunndagslegar ráðleggingar og háspekilegt efni. Eina forna eintakið af Hávamáli er að finna í Codex Regius, öðru nafni Konungsbók. Kvæðið er talið vera frá seinni hluta 13. aldar en ekki vita menn neitt um geymd þess fyrr en það kom í eigu Brynjólfs biskups… Shares: Glossaries, Language

Elegiae Sextus Propertius · 1780 · ★ 3.9 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Of all the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c.50-10 BC) is one of those who perhaps holds most immediate appeal for the twentieth century reader. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry, and is analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods - from ecstacy to suicidal despair. The son of an… Shares: Glossaries, Language, History and criticism

King Lear William Shakespeare · 1800 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Lear decides to abdicate and split his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Cordelia refuses to flatter her father like her sisters and is banished. Goneril and Regan betray Lear who goes mad. Shares: Shakespeare, Drama

Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Ebenezer Cobham Brewer · 1860 · 990p · ≈ 33h · Demanding Character Sketches of Romance - Volume I Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Compiler of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and The Reader's Handbook, Victorian reference works (1810-1897) This ebook presents «Character Sketches of Romance - Volume I», from Ebenezer Cobham Brewer. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents About This Book Character… Shares: Dictionaries, English language

Troilus and Cressida William Shakespeare · 1609 · ★ 3.4 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Demanding With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century.Each volume features: Authoritative, reliable texts High quality introductions and notes New, more readable trade trim size An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and… Shares: Dictionaries, English language, History and criticism, Drama

Entick's new spelling dictionary John Entick · 1787 · 492p · ≈ 16h · Demanding Shares: Dictionaries, English language

Romeo and Juliet, 1750 William Shakespeare · 1750 · ★ 3.6 · 108p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Shares: Shakespeare, English language, Drama

Cymbeline William Shakespeare · 1734 · ★ 3.6 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Cymbeline, King of Britain is one of the best-known works of William Shakespeare. It is a romantic play interwoven with war and tragedy. It revolves around Cymbeline and his daughter, Imogen. Imogen does not abide by her father's wishes and marries a lowborn gentleman, Posthumous. After their marriage, Posthumous is banished from Britain, and Imogen is held as a prisoner in the palace. As the… Shares: Language, History and criticism, Drama

Love's Labour's Lost William Shakespeare · 1891 · ★ 3.5 King Ferdinand and his three friends, Biron, Longaville, and Dumain, plan to study philosophy for the next three years. During their academic pursuits, they must vow to sleep only three hours a night and not let any woman within a mile of court. These strict rules will prevent any distractions from their work—but their promises are soon put to the test when a princess and her three companions… Shares: Shakespeare, Drama

The Simple Art of Murder Raymond Chandler · 1950 · ★ 4.1 · 533p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares: Dictionaries, History and criticism Shares: Dictionaries, History and criticism

The comedy of errors Robert S. Miola · 1997 · 592p · ≈ 19h · Moderate This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's AComedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these… Shares: Shakespeare, Drama

Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw · 1912 · ★ 3.9 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. ---------- Also contained in: Collected Plays with their Prefaces: Volume IV Complete Plays with Prefaces: Volume I [Four Plays by Bernard Shaw][1] Plays Portable Bernard Shaw [Pygmalion and Major Barbara][2] [Pygmalion and My Fair… Shares: Dictionaries, English language, Drama

William Shakespeare Brian Vickers · 2002 · 564p · ≈ 18h · Moderate The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from… Shares: Shakespeare, Drama

Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen · 1890 · 102p · ≈ 3h · Challenging A masterpiece of modern theater, Hedda Gabler is a dark psychological drama whose powerful and reckless heroine has tested the mettle of leading actresses of every generation since its first production in Norway in 1890. Ibsen's Hedda is an aristocratic and spiritually hollow woman, nearly devoid of redeeming virtues. George Bernard Shaw described her as having "no conscience, no conviction … she… Shares: Dictionaries, English language, Drama

Monde primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne .. Antoine Court de Gébelin · 1773 · 567p · ≈ 18h · Demanding Il gioco dei tarocchi, testo coltissimo quanto fantasioso, è contenuto nell’ottavo volume (1781) di Monde primitif analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne, monumentale opera di mitologia comparata scritta da Antoine Court de Gébelin, pastore protestante, massone ed erudito vicino agli illuministi. Senza questo piccolo saggio, quello che nel Settecento era un semplice gioco di carte non si… Shares: Language, Dictionaries

Post-colonial Shakespeares Ania Loomba · 1998 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This collection of new essays explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging post-colonial period. Post-Colonial Shakespeares examines the extent to which our assumption about such key terms as 'colonization', 'race' and 'nation' derive from early modern English culture. It also looks at how such terms are themselves affected by what were established subsequently… Shares: Shakespeare, Drama

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