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GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year agoliterally meant “virgin” (as in “maiden voyage”)
I can’t believe I never made this connection before.
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GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year agoliterally meant “virgin” (as in “maiden voyage”)
I can’t believe I never made this connection before.
Disregard3145@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I learned this wrt romeo and juliet, maidenhead is the hymen or virginity (maidenhood?)
For reference the line in Romeo and Juliet was
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How did Bill get that past the censors?!
oatscoop@midwest.social 1 year ago
It’s hilarious how Shakespeare’s are seen today considering what they were originally. They’re full of dirty jokes and the accent they were originally performed in sounded nothing like the Received Pronunciation used today.
constantokra@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Do you happen to know where to find whole plays done in the original pronunciation? I’m not exactly bad at finding things on the internet, but I can’t find any of Shakespeare’s plays in their original pronunciation, or more than a tiny bit of Chaucer’s Canterbury tales in spoken middle English.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
They’d never heard him tell a joke before.