"'None do slacken, none can die': Die Puns and Embodied Time in Donne and Shakespeare" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc131/ Author: Pacenza, Jennifer. Type: Book Chapter Year: 2013 Publication Information: Anderson, Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids and the Cultural Imaginary, 61–81. : Anderson, Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids and the Cultural Imaginary Annotation: Explores how Shakespeare and John Donne's puns on die set up a middle space between "mortal and orgasmic death," thereby "escap[ing] from the confines and damages of linear time through what [the author] term[s] 'embodied time.'" Focuses on the language of masturbation in Sonnets. Language: English Persons: Donne, John; Anderson, Judith H.; Vaught, Jennifer C. Keywords: die; pun; orgasm; masturbation Tags: Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Sonnets WSB Update: Summer 2013 WSB Record Number: bbbc131