shakespeares comedies
... Wrong, all these sexual immoralistic plots are from the comedies of William Shakespeare. ... Right from the time people started writing comedies, they knew these two aspects of human behavior and feelings would pull in audiences” (The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare, Gail Paster, p 181-182). Shakespeare, being the genius he is, keyed in on these ideas presented by Paster creating comedies that either revolved around or used sex as a means of comedic relief. ... These sexual puns and characters are actually Shakespeare’s key to making his comedies moralistically applicable to every man; human beings can relate to the sexual nature of his plays and the immorality of them. ... This blunt vulgarity is not restrained to just Much Ado About Nothing but is obvious throughout all of his comedies. ... Shakespeare seems to have a stock of characters much like Falstaff in all of his comedies. ... The sexual nature of the comedies also plays in a key aspect of humanity as most all human beings exhibit these traits. Through sex and immoral characters Shakespeare was able to draw in the common man to his comedies and keep them with his puns. ... Some of his characters were dirtier then the lowliest street life with fowler language which allowed people to relate to his comedies. His comedies gave the most corrupt man hope of moral turn about, no wonder his plays were so popular.