The darling buds of May

[DavidS]

I don't think there is a single phrase in Macbeth's 'all our yesterdays' speech, that hasn't been subsequently used in the title of a film, play, book or tv programme.

[DavidS]

Shakespeare's bawdy was sometimes obscure, his best example was the use of 'country matters' as a euphemism for sexual intercourse in Hamlet. The concentration being on the first syllable of the word 'country'.

[jj]

I believe Hamlet is credited as the most-plagiarised.
But Mac's gotta come a v close second, assuming the above is true.

[jj]

Wonder if the 70s producers of Country Matters (based on H E Bates and Coppard) were aware of this?
Bates certainly worked sex into most of his stuff...........

[DavidS]

Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
Ophelia: No, my lord.
Hamlet: I mean, my head in your lap.
Ophelia: Ay, my lord.
Hamlet: Do you think I meant country matters?
Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord.
Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.

[jj]

Love the ambiguity of that 'Ay, my Lord'.

[Pervert]

In Branagh's film of Hamlet he chose (and who wouldn't with La Winslett as Ophelia) to have a nude love scene between Hammy and Phelia, which was ridiculed by a number of critics and scholars, but which makes sense of her going mad later after her father being killed by her lover.

[jj]

Totally agree- what we need is more Nude Shakespeare.
Perhaps C5 could do a series, ' "Bawdy Bard"- Shakespeare: the Dirty Bits'.
Like Chris Clark's 'Hamlet' rip of the 90s, with SLY.......

[DavidS]

I once saw a porn version of Hamlet, I don't think it was the SLY one, where Hamlet did 'to be or not to be' while having a blow job. Trouble was the props were for the 'Alas! poor Yorick' scene!

[jj]

Now THAT I'd like to see: H getting a BJ from Yorick's mortal remains !

[only for humour purposes, you understand: I'm not into that nec....nicr....that shagging dead people stuff].