Shakespeare seemed to love titillating his audiences with double meanings, innuendos and, at times, sheer outright, unambiguous sexual declarations Take rape, for example, a preoccupation in many of shakespeare’s early plays and a theme throughout his writing. Here we’ve pulled together some of shakespeare’s dirtiest lines… prepare yourself!
The word tail was also a euphemism for… yes, vagina But sex in shakespeare’s plays is rarely this straightforward In twelfth night, malvolio is given a forged love letter purporting to be from the wealthy countess olivia.
In fact, many of shakespeare’s jokes are so explicit that they were removed from editions of his plays published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The most celebrated english playwright in the world, william shakespeare, might be shrouded in mystery but he sure did have a cheeky sense of humour Along with being an absolutely brilliant. It is the concern of this essay to show that shakespeare used both the many different meanings and connotations of a single word as well as the whole range of words suitable for describing a certain subject or situation to create his extremely witty puns and allusions on sexual issues.
