Shakespeare, dear, what were you *on*?

I'm slogging through Cymbeline, getting on with the plot summary and relationship diagram like a good girl. It is the kinkiest thing I have read in a long time, and considering that my current bedside reading is Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies, that's saying something. IV.2 is definitely taking the prize. As well as the usual cross-dressing larks, we have not only gay incestuous necrophiliac brothers, but MPREG. Dead MPREG. At least, what else do you call it when Innogen (in drag) wakes to find the headless body of Cloten (in her husband's clothes), and cries, "O 'tis pregnant, pregnant!" (l.326)?

I'm not sure I can take this any more.

Shakespeare, dear, what were you *on*?

I'm slogging through Cymbeline, getting on with the plot summary and relationship diagram like a good girl. It is the kinkiest thing I have read in a long time, and considering that my current bedside reading is Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies, that's saying something. IV.2 is definitely taking the prize. As well as the usual cross-dressing larks, we have not only gay incestuous necrophiliac brothers, but MPREG. Dead MPREG. At least, what else do you call it when Innogen (in drag) wakes to find the headless body of Cloten (in her husband's clothes), and cries, "O 'tis pregnant, pregnant!" (l.326)?

I'm not sure I can take this any more.