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'For students of satire, the analyses of individual plays provide excellent models for evaluating the multidimensional effects of satiric vituperation... For students of Renaissance culture, historical contextualizations of the plays at the beginning of each chapter illuminate the political, economic, social, and moral conditions that made it possible for such a proliferation of implicit and explicit sexual allusions to be performed on the Renaissance stage.' Renaissance Quarterly 'Sex may have lost its shock value and, according to George S. Kaufman, satire is what closes on Saturday night, but this book reminds us of their literary significance.' The European Legacy

'For students of satire, the analyses of individual plays provide excellent models for evaluating the multidimensional effects of satiric vituperation... For students of Renaissance culture, historical contextualizations of the plays at the beginning of each chapter illuminate the political, economic, social, and moral conditions that made it possible for such a proliferation of implicit and explicit sexual allusions to be performed on the Renaissance stage.' Renaissance Quarterly 'Sex may have lost its shock value and, according to George S. Kaufman, satire is what closes on Saturday night, but this book reminds us of their literary significance.' The European Legacy

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Gabriel A. Rieger is an assistant professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia, where he lives with his wife and daughter

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