Friday, March 11, 2011

It's All About the Sex

As with most of Shakespeare's comedies, Love's Labor's Lost is littered with sexual innuendoes. However, the play seems to have more than usual. Patricia Parker takes a closer look in her article 'Preposterous Reversals: Love's Labor's Lost'. In the article she discusses the variety of sexual humor but moves on to the absolutely obscene. Shakespeare, it seems in this play, has resorted to poop jokes.

For further reading:
Preposterous Reversals: Love's Labor's Lost

Parker, Patricia. "Preposterous Reversals: Love's Labor's Lost." Modern Language Quarterly. 54.4 (1993): 435-482. Print.

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