Thursday, August 11, 2011

Do you think William Shakespeare was a preverse man?

As many critics have pointed out, Shakespeare was mainly interested in putting backsides into theatre seats. To do so he had to cater to popular taste. He didn't know that people nowadays would be seeing and reading his plays. It was two of his friends that published them. Most of his smutty stuff was by innuendo or by pun anyway, unlike nowadays when it is right in the open (witness, " two and a half men").

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