Did Shakespere intend these double entendres?
One:
"To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come..."
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"To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death wet dreams may сum."
Two:
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
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"The penis, my dear, then the sword."
(He was actually talking to his chambermaid when she came in to clean and polish a suit of armor standing in the corner." I mean, everyone knows Shakespeare was a perv, so you gotta wonder.
Answers
Pat Wooden
Maybe not those particular ones, but Shakespeare's plays have many naughty references and deliberate double entendres, because they were performed in front of a mostly peasant audience who loved those things.
Lapiz Dominoes
ShakespeAre was bawdy, not crass..
Mike
I think he was older than 13 when he wrote those lines, so no.
Richard D
You are crude.
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