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• 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

  Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads.
  Take it in what sense thou wilt.
  

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How did Bill get that past the censors?!

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    • 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.

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      • 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.

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’d never heard him tell a joke before.

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