Some literary critics hold that puns and double entendres are the lowest form of humor. Maybe so, because a pun is an ambiguity that is cheap way of communicating and a double entendre is an ambiguity that features an "indelicate" interpretation. Yet Shakespeare's plays are loaded with both. Even the title "Much Ado About Nothing" would be better understood in the Bard's own day because "nothing" then was slang for a woman's genitals, and in fact the word "all," then slang for a man's private parts, derived from "awl," which is an agricultural implement shaped like a penis. The porn industry these days shows off titles that more often than not are double entendres ("Debbie Does Dallas"), while "Finding Bliss" exploits director Julie Davis's pun that directs our attention both to the actual meaning (extreme pleasure) and the name of a leading character in her third movie. More salacious,...
- 6/8/2010
- Arizona Reporter
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