title: A Dictionary of Shakespeares Sexual Puns and Their Significance
author:  Frankie Rubinstein 
description: This dictionary examines previously unnoted puns on the erotic attitudes and practices of the heterosexual and homosexual, the sexual deviant, and the impotent. It includes scatological puns in their usually bawdy contexts and ethnic puns, as sexually snide then as now. It stresses the need to read and hear Shakespeare word by word, giving full weight to each one and asking why the line is so and not otherwise. It heightens our awareness of Shakespeare's words, their Elizabethan connotations and their contemporary validity. For today's non-specialist audiences, the sexual puns are invitations to the fun of Shakespeare.
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  ###  TUMBLE-DOWN DICK:
  
  
    
  OR, PHAETON in the SUDS.
  
  
    
  A Dramatick Entertainment of Walking, in Serious and Foolish
  
  
  Characters: Interlarded with Burlesque, Grotesque, Comick Interludes,
  
  
  CALL'D, Harlequin a Pick-Pocket.
  
  
    
  As it is Perform'd at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market.
  
  
  Monstr' horrend' inform.—
  
  
  TO Mr. JOHN LUN, Vulgarly call'd Esquire.
  
  
  SIR,
  
  
  Tho' Pasquin has put Dedications in so ridiculous a Light,
  
  
  that Patrons may, perhaps, pay some Shame for the future for reading
  
  
  their own Praises; yet, I hope you will not begin to be affected with
  
  
  so troublesome a Passion, when I tell you, I know no Man in England
  
  
  to whom I can so properly dedicate the following Pages as yourself.
  
  
  It is to You, S