Girl From The North Country

December, 2007

YOU KNEW SHAKESPEARE WAS BAWDY-JUST NOT THIS BAWDYIn Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns, scholar Pauline Kiernan exposes the racy subtext lurking beneath the Bard's every word. Here are some well-known passages and—according to Kiernan— their alternate meanings.In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck proclaims: "I am that merry wanderer of the night. I jest to Oberon, and make him smile."Adjusted for puns, his brief self-introduction proves windier: "I am tha...

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