{"id":1400561,"date":"2026-03-19T12:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1400561"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:23:22","slug":"7-dirty-jokes-you-didnt-catch-in-shakespeares-most-popular-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/7-dirty-jokes-you-didnt-catch-in-shakespeares-most-popular-plays\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Dirty Jokes in Shakespeare&#8217;s Plays You Won&#8217;t Believe Your Teacher Let You Read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/7dirtyjokesyoudidntcatchinshakespeare_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays Shakespeare is considered the height of high-brow literature. But back in his day he was known as the guy who was, at any given moment, trying to see how many dirty jokes he could pack into a single five-act play. (The answer was usually \u201ca lot,\u201d sometimes bordering on \u201cTOO MANY. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WILL, KIDS ARE GOING TO BE READING THIS.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And even if you already knew that Shakespeare was the rough equivalent of an eighth-grader constantly shoehorning \u201cyour mom\u201d jokes into every conversation (sidebar: Shakespeare is often credited with making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/titus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the earliest known \u201cyour mom\u201d joke<\/a>), there might still be one or two of these filthy, filthy quips that went way over your head.&nbsp;Let&#8217;s talk about those quips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays Shakespeare is considered the height of high-brow literature. But back in his day he was known as the guy who was, at any given moment, trying to see how many dirty jokes he could   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,524,25017,171,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400561"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442636,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400561\/revisions\/1442636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}