--from The Music Man
See what you miss by despising musical theater, Doug?
Rabelais is especially improper, being mainly a long succession of fart jokes. But Then there's Villion, and the Bard of Avon (you know, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, or was it Sir Edward Vere, the Earl of Oxford?) is so improper that he was the main target of Bowlderization in the 19th century.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Charles Brown wrote:
>
> >Actually, the Canterbury Tales, Knight's Tale,
> rhymes like a white sword
> >rap.
>
> And it's full of obscenity too! I wonder how the
> Trad Vals types deal
> with the fact that so much canonical literature is
> full of sex and
> sexuality, and not always of the plain vanilla kind.
>
> Doug
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