{"id":9699,"date":"2017-02-10T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/heres-a-basic-rule-if-youre-reading-or-watching\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T17:24:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:24:14","slug":"heres-a-basic-rule-if-youre-reading-or-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/heres-a-basic-rule-if-youre-reading-or-watching\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s a basic rule: if you\u2019re reading or watching a Shakespeare play, and you\u2019re not imagining the actors standing in front of a mosh pit of jeering Londoners waiting to throw vegetables at the stage, you\u2019re doing it wrong. <\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare might have written the best works in the English language, or given us profound insight into the nature of humanity, or whatever \u2014 but his works wouldn\u2019t have survived to our day if he hadn\u2019t been popular when he was alive, and he wouldn\u2019t have been popular when he was alive if he hadn\u2019t been able to please the crowd. And that includes a lot of dirty jokes. A lot. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes in incredibly inappropriate places. We\u2019re here to rescue a few of those for you, and retroactively embarrass the heck out of your fourteen-year-old self, who had to stand up in English class and read things that, in retrospect, are absolutely filthy. <\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t about the stuff that always does crack fourteen-year-olds up in English class, but is totally innocent: the \u201cbring me my long sword, ho!\u201d sort of thing. <\/p>\n<p>But the kids who lose it every time the word \u201cho\u201d is uttered are closer to the spirit of Shakespeare than the teacher who demands they treat the words like museum pieces. <\/p>\n<p>Sure, it would be awkward for teachers to explain the Elizabethan double entendres to their students \u2014 but pretending they don\u2019t exist makes Shakespeare seem unnecessarily stuffy and difficult. <\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019re going to start with the most obvious innuendoes, and move on to some seriously advanced sex punnery that is probably going to blow your mind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/cards\/shakespeare-innuendoes-embarrassed-to-read-aloud\/reading-shakespeare-without-the-sex-jokes-is-the-real-tragedy\">Reading Shakespeare without the sex jokes is the real tragedy.<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.tumblr.com\/\">newsweek<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Totally.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/eglantinebr.tumblr.com\/\">eglantinebr<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>True story: my ninth grade English teacher cemented my love of Shakespeare by explaining all the dirty jokes in\u00a0<em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>\u2014including letting us figure out what the nurse meant by \u201cthou shalt fall backward when thou hast more wit\u201d on our own. It totally works.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/hangingfire.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">hangingfire<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a basic rule: if you\u2019re reading or watching a Shakespeare play, and you\u2019re not imagining the actors standing in front of a mosh pit of jeering Londoners waiting to throw vegetables at the stage, you\u2019re doing it wrong. Shakespeare might have written the best works in the English language, or given us profound insight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2wr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}