The works of William Shakespeare contain at least 400 puns on words for the penis and vagina. And these are just the tip of a very dirty iceberg indeedÄ Shakespeare is stuffed with wordplay and double entendres so filthy they would make even our most risqué comics blush. From The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Tempest, the plays and poems throb with puns on body parts and what they do. Cunts and cocks. Wanking and dildoes. Same-sex fucking and fellatio. The sheer salacious inventiveness of his sexual puns is breathtaking! Filthy Shakespeare presents more than 70 sizzling examples of the Bard at his raunchiest, arranged under different categories from Balls to Buggery, and from Cunnilingus to the Clap. Each passage of the original text is •translated' into modern English and the hidden sexual meaning of the original text revealed. A fascinating introduction by the author, distinguished Shakespearean scholar Pauline Kiernan, shows how England's most famous writer's wordplay had its roots in the social and political reality of the time. * Filthy Shakespeare has got to be the quirkiest and dirtiest gift book of the year. * It offers startling and intriguing insights into the richness and complexity of Shakespeare's language and his world. * Written by one of the world's foremost Shakespearean scholars, this elegantly produced hardback book is the perfect gift.