"Even his name means wanker."

[Jonathan Lighter]

You know who. Think about it. Oxford educator Pauline Kiernan spells it out
again and again in her hilarious _Filthy Shakespeare_ (Quercus, 2005).

But wait... The dust jacket calls this Four-X-rated treatment of the bard
"deeply insightful."  So it isn't hilarious after all! It's true! (Maybe
both? Naaaa. But postmodernwise you can't tell what's real and what's a
riotous put-on. If you think you can, perhaps you're already obsolete.)

As for Kiernan, you be the judge. In any event, you'll never read Sonnet IV
the same way again.

JL



-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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