This makes me extremely concerned as to what you're downloading!
by PictureOfFlowers
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Nah, the pictures are much better when they take a few seconds to download.But you have to delete them pretty sharpish or they'll put you in jail...
Posted: 00:09 Jan 09 2004 You think Will was being circumspect, then you ain't read Hamlet. He has a discussion with Ophelia regarding country matters (read it out loud... hey, it's not filth, it's Shakespeare!) Hie thee to read a book called "Shakespeare's Bawdy".
by Byron
If you want filth in cannonical writers, the first two bastions of the language are the best place to look. Wily old Wil was more circumspect, but I don't believe you could read genuinely uncensored Chaucer until after it had been decided the wives and servants could cope!
Posted: 10:00 Jan 09 2004
by Bee
You think Will was being circumspect, then you ain't read Hamlet. He has a discussion with Ophelia regarding country matters (read it out loud... hey, it's not filth, it's Shakespeare!) Hie thee to read a book called "Shakespeare's Bawdy".
All circumspection is not equal, but that little one's been slipping under many a Radar for the past 400 years. My devilishly subtle inferences to it certainly passed my A-level Shakespearian expert by, though in truth that speaks more about said misnomer than the merits of Bill's obfuscation. Knowing that a pillar of the literary pantheon is responsible for James Nesbitt's intimate moment with an arse-bound poker on primetime BBC1 certainly warms the... cockles.
As for Chaucer - agreed - though it is noticeable that the Reeve and the Miller (purveyors of the filthiest tales) are "lower-class" characters...
I remember one of my brothers saying Chaucer was old and boring. He wouldn't believe me when I read choice bits of the Miller's Tale...
Posted: 13:25 Jan 09 2004 Whereas Mrs. Williams English was filthy with the best of them!
by Byron
My devilishly subtle inferences to it certainly passed my A-level Shakespearian expert by, though in truth that speaks more about said misnomer than the merits of Bill's obfuscation.
Posted: 14:51 Jan 09 2004 Ah, but as Dr Johnson rightly said ...
by Bee
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Whereas Mrs. Williams English was filthy with the best of them!
And it didn't slip under everyone's radar - witness Dr. Bowdler, who made Shakespeare clean so that ladies could read it....
Posted: 15:45 Jan 09 2004 
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