Whats the deal with shakespeare "intellectuals" trying to convince everyone every single line in every single play is actually a completely retarded sexual based pun, is this some kind of psyop?
No, it's true. You've literally just been conditioned to think art was dry and humorless back then.>Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will,>And Will to boot, and Will in over-plus;>More than enough am I that vexed thee still,>To thy sweet will making addition thus.>Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,>Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?>Shall will in others seem right gracious,>And in my will no fair acceptance shine?>The sea, all water, yet receives rain still,>And in abundance addeth to his store;>So thou, being rich in Will, add to thy Will>One will of mine, to make thy large will more.>Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill;>Think all but one, and me in that one Will.
>>24949933Half of his plays are comedies you fucking imbecile
>>24949933It's a generational problem. Shakespeare scholars are all free-love hippy boomers.
>>24949933Yeah Shakespeare was famously averse to sexual puns.Fun fact: he also hated funny gratuitous violence!
>Villain you have blackened our mother's reputation>Knave I have blacked your momWhat did Aaron mean by this?
>>24949933The only person who understands Shakespeare is my sister and everyone else needs to be shot.>>24949962Theatre wasn't 'art' at Shakespeare's time thoughbeit.
>>24950090Then why did the King and Queen attend his plays?
>>24950185To pay homage to their old friend, the arch-spy and glowie Christopher Marlowe.
>>24950185Lotta presidents go to baseball and football games
>>24950185Theatre was literally popular entertainment attended en masse by the plebeians my dear friend. It's equivalent to gladiator shows in classical Rome, the definition of bread and circuses.
that ain't nothing compared to the restoration era playsI recently read about a play whose entire plot was about a guy who wanted to cuckold as many men as possible by pretending he had EDSadly the killjoy Victorian neo-Puritans tried to brush it all under the rug
yeah people were more serious back thencomedy was not a thing and there were no perverts
