Happy (pre-)Valentine’s Day–Pericles: bawdy or just ‘unsavory’?

Happy (pre-) Valentine’s Day! and in that spirit…

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So. Pericles and the bawdy. Given that Act Four takes place mostly in a brothel, you know it’s going to bring the bawdy. But what does our Bard of the Bawdy, Eric Partridge say in his Shakespeare’s Bawdy?

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Podcast 144: Pericles: bawdy, non-bawdy, videos, questions [EXPLICIT]

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This week’s podcast continues our discussion of Pericles with a look at bawdy in the play, the video version available out there, some random questions about the play, as well as shameless self-promotion.

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Podcast 140: Timon of Athens: dirty bits and writing credits [EXPLICIT]

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This week’s podcast continues our three month-long discussion of Timon of Athens with a look at bawdy in the play as well as (co-)authorship questions.

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Bawdy Timon: misanthropic? How ‘bout misogynistic?

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Eric Partridge, in his study of and dictionary for the bawdy in the Bard, Shakespeare’s Bawdy, has this to say about our play:
Timon of Athens is, in III vi–the end, the most misanthropic of Shakespeare’s plays, sexually as well as generally. Quantitatively comparable with All’s Well, Hamlet, Lear”  (Shakespeare’s Bawdy, Partridge, Eric. New York: Routledge Classics, 2001; page 57).

A refresher on how we felt about the bawdy in those plays:

So. Caution: this is not going to be pretty…

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Podcast 137: Antony and Cleopatra: Bawdy and the Barge [EXPLICIT]

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This week’s podcast continues our three month-long discussion of Antony and Cleopatra with a quick look at bawdy in the play, then a look at Enobarbus’ “the barge” speech.

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Antony and Cleopatra: Leaving Bawdy-ville [EXPLICIT]

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A couple of days back, I took a look at the bawdy-ful opening act of Antony and Cleopatra. It wasn’t really vulgar, but it was dirty.

Let’s take a look at the rest of the play… (the more clean-minded of you are excused)

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Antony and Cleopatra: Return of the Badass Bawdy [EXPLICIT]

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OK, it’s that time of the month, er, discussion cycle… We’re going to Bawdy-ville, located somewhere between Rome and Alexandria. So, the usual caveats apply (maybe even a little more so) for Antony and Cleopatra.

This is your last chance…

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Macbeth: Mac-Bawdy? not so much

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First of all, there’s not a whole lot of bawdy in Macbeth. Or as Eric Partridge, the author of the great Shakespeare’s Bawdy, puts it: “Macbeth is the ‘purest’ of the Tragedies and, except for the Porter Scene, pure by any criterion” (Shakespeare’s Bawdy, Partridge, Eric. New York: Routledge Classics, 2001; page 47). It’s almost as if the play itself said, “Unsex me here” (I.v.40).

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Podcast 131: Macbeth: Bawdy, plus Tomorrow, Unsex Me

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This week’s podcast continues our two month-long discussion of Macbeth with a quick look at bawdy in the play (there’s not much), then a longer look at two major speeches in the play (“Tomorrow” and [not at all ironically] “Unsex me here”).

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Podcast 128: King Lear: Bawdy, plus Nothing

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This week’s podcast continues our three month-long discussion of King Lear with a look at bawdy in the play, then in in the second half we’ll talk about nothing.

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