Even titles of plays. Nothing was slang for vagina, so Much Ado About Nothing was an off color joke roughly translated today as “a ruckesss about pussy”.
I’m sorry but I cannot stop cackling at the image of Picard, straight faced as fuck, saying everything you just did word for word. Or quoting Shakespeare and then saying “From one of my favorite lays, A Ruckess About Pussy”.
i think the comedies exist primarily as a combined project to discover as many cheeky expressions for human genitalia and their actions as were possible to create with the language
Shit, I even learned something about Shakespeare’s Romero and Juliet I didn’t learn in school.
there are a LOT of jokes about pussy in Shakespeare
Even titles of plays. Nothing was slang for vagina, so Much Ado About Nothing was an off color joke roughly translated today as “a ruckesss about pussy”.
I’m sorry but I cannot stop cackling at the image of Picard, straight faced as fuck, saying everything you just did word for word. Or quoting Shakespeare and then saying “From one of my favorite lays, A Ruckess About Pussy”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_cwI1Xj4M
i think the comedies exist primarily as a combined project to discover as many cheeky expressions for human genitalia and their actions as were possible to create with the language
My Catholic school skipped them all.
Shakespeare was the original “Sex and Violence”