"Burns was concerned that his
bawdry remain within a select circle of male acquaintances and patrons, and it didn't appear in print until three years after his death.
In endorsing this 'underground' paper--as well as the 'Small Ode', Baxter contributed an otherwise unpublished (and fairly undistinguished) piece of
bawdry entitled 'Treasure Song' and a short essay on 'The Puritan Devil'--Baxter was not only supporting the students against the University authorities; he was supporting the more radical elements of the student body against a staid and conformist Students Association.
In theory, "Adultery, & c, and all Acts of
Bawdry, are Breaches of the Peace ...
It was less the
bawdry at Court that Pepys deplored than the lethargy it induced in the royal brothers, who tended to dissipate their not always boundless energy in compulsive womanizing.
This Romeo and Juliet mutes hormonal sizzle and
bawdry. Antoni Cimolini's Romeo and Megan Porter Follows's Juliet give us chaste young lovers, moved by enthusiasm for each other rather than physical passion.
These stories are riotous, vintage Vian: full of exquisite Pataphysical
bawdry, any number of superfluous characters, and a delicious disdain for the logic of the Cartesian universe.
A technical difficulty arises in reviewing Larkin's Letters: in all my experience I have never seen or read such foul-mouthed language, the whole virtuoso gamut of
bawdry, swear-words often in every line, particularly in the earlier letters and to male cronies like Kingsley Amis.
A raconteur who excels in shorter forms, he's tried everything from
bawdry to bedtime story with great results--and now a sustained entertainment that pursues two threads, two lives--those of a singular young man, Francis With, and a radio station, WLT.
Bawdry and licentiousness of all sorts are rampant in the city, and the duke accepts responsibility for laxity in enforcing the law.
The collection and composition of
bawdry in Scotland can be traced back to the earliest recorded specimens of Scottish literature, and to the inclusion in the Bannatyne Manuscript of William Dunbar's 'Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo' and the anonymous 'Freiris of Berwick'.
Langhans sees the cuts as 'primarily to delete extraneous material and some
bawdry', although given that the remaining text includes advice to 'put in deeper, tis the sweeter' (C4v), and some graphic reflection on chafing (K1r), it is unlikely that taste was a motivating factor.
The "machine" puns gratuitously, as if to remind us that what had seemed like a promising revenge tragedy has since been derailed by Reynaldo, Voltemand, and Polonius's predilection for a tale of
bawdry between Hamlet and Ophelia.
