Are some of Shakespeare??? (TM)s romantic storybook heroines actually emoting sexually obscene (but very funny) lines? {??? oeSexual quibbles (puns, play-on words), covertly uttered by precious-and-pure heroines, call for an immediate revision of viewpoint.??? } When Fernando (The Tempest) is described as bravely swimming for shore ??? oein lusty stroke??? , would he be disqualified for doing this in Olympic competition? Before the walls of Harfleur, when Henry V threatens to ??? oemow like grass your fresh-fair virgins?? ...
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Are some of Shakespeare??? (TM)s romantic storybook heroines actually emoting sexually obscene (but very funny) lines? {??? oeSexual quibbles (puns, play-on words), covertly uttered by precious-and-pure heroines, call for an immediate revision of viewpoint.??? } When Fernando (The Tempest) is described as bravely swimming for shore ??? oein lusty stroke??? , would he be disqualified for doing this in Olympic competition? Before the walls of Harfleur, when Henry V threatens to ??? oemow like grass your fresh-fair virgins??? and have ??? oeyour naked infants spitted upon pikes??? , is he (and by inference his creator) barbarous? Or is he doing an hilarious comic imitation of Marlowe??? (TM)s Tamburlaine before the walls of Damascus? {??? oeThere exists an interesting Marlovian source for the Tamburlaine protagonist himself??? "Ivan the Terrible. He proposed marriage to Queen Elizabeth, who tactfully turned him down.??? } Rule Number 1: If a good writer seems surprisingly inept and has been known to be a wit or humorist, suspect parody or satire. Well, esteemed readers, you decide where to place your bets. On the critics? Or on William Shakespeare?
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