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Shakespeare's Sex Life
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
The Earl of Southampton and the Master Mistress
Shakespeare wrote almost nothing, in fact, zero, I'd say, about his own writing. He was not a self-reflecting author and didn't care whether his books came out. The Earl of Southampton fits this template that you're talking about. He's sort of hiding in plain sight as a young man, master mistress. But as he gets older, he becomes more and more establishment. And there's a guy in epigram 2.28 who is abstaining from all the penetrative sexual activities. You do it today, just like that's not what a builder looks like. What’s your favourite Shakespearean sex joke? It took me a long time to
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