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Shakespeare's Sex Life

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Shakespeare's Nothing Joke

Are there any plays where he's not making rude, smutty jokes? Like the really serious tragedy ones or the royal history. Is it just an absolute smutfest from start to finish? That's a really good question because I was thinking about a word that crops up over and over again, the word nothing. The word nothing usually refers to female genitals but can refer to male genitals as well.

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