“I have been smeared all over with the most opprobrious epithets . . . am stigmatized as a bawd and a blackmailer. Now until you are ready . . . to suffer what I have suffered ...

Matisse, “Portrait with the Green Stripe,” now in the Copenhagen Royal Museum of Fine Art; “The Gypsy,” an old bawd with a green nose and green breasts, from that isolated, brief period in ...

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Then that curst carmagnole, auld Satan, Watches, like bawd'rons by a rattan, Our sinfu' saul to get a claute on Wi' felon ire; Syne, whip! his tail ye'll ne'er cast saut on, He's off like fire.

The 2016 Edinburgh International Festival is celebrating the influence of Shakespeare and re-interpretations of his work, to mark 400 years since his death. We're taking a closer look at three ...

Jasmyn Bojakli recently completed her MA in English at McGill University. Her research focuses on the representation of the eighteenth-century bawd in literature and media. Alyssa Bridgman recently ...