Esempi dal corpus di testo per sénéchal
1. They were as smutty–minded then as we are now.‘ An example, according to Sénéchal, is A Midsummer Night‘s Dream, Act 5, scene 1.
2. It‘s a gimmick, an attempt to grab attention.‘ Smut by any other name Sénéchal found many previously unidentified double entendres in Shakespeare‘s works.
3. Sénéchal has identified seemingly innocuous words such as carrot, pencil and horn as terms for penis, while she pinpoints pie, fruit dish and ‘buggle boe‘ as references to the vagina. ‘We are trying to resist the cultural embarrassment that has permeated footnotes in the past,‘ she said. ‘Shakespeare is now an institution, and there is an assumption, especially in schools, that he was using high rhetoric.
4. Now one woman has gone further with the most intensive search ever for sexual innuendo, toilet humour and smut buried deep in the national poet‘s oeuvre. ‘The plays are absolutely packed with filth,‘ said academic Héloďse Sénéchal. ‘I‘ve found more than a hundred terms for vagina alone.‘ That the author of As You Like It would, were he alive today, be writing for Viz magazine is implied by Sénéchal‘s research for the footnotes of a new Royal Shakespeare Company edition of his complete works which promises to be the most candid ever.