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To: bunkerhill7

Nunnery was Elizabethan slang for a brothel. He was not telling Ophelia to go and take up in a religious order.Doesn’t mean he was or was not a crypto-Catholic. Just that it’s not exactly evidence he was.


17 posted on 11/27/2014 9:42:16 PM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: katana

But there were no nunneries in England for the 100 years before shake a spear wrote this, and hardly any for the next 100.

Ergo, purgatory was Elizabethan slang for a pub.

“Kingdom” was slang for a house.

“Horse” was slang for a prostitute.

ergo, My kingdom for a horse.

Every word in Shake a sprrearespeare is slang.


27 posted on 11/28/2014 7:58:54 AM PST by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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