Shakespeare’s work has a lot of dirty jokes, they’re just made with terminology modern English speakers don’t know or don’t realize was dirty back then.
And some of his lines are overt even to people today, like “What, with my tongue in your tail?” or when he uses a character named Bottom to make a lot of double entendres.
TIL “bowdlerize” https://www.englishgrammar.org/bowdlerize-means-sanitize-book/
what a prude, that Thomas Bowdler. Shakespeare was too spicy for him!
Shakespeare’s work has a lot of dirty jokes, they’re just made with terminology modern English speakers don’t know or don’t realize was dirty back then.
And some of his lines are overt even to people today, like “What, with my tongue in your tail?” or when he uses a character named Bottom to make a lot of double entendres.