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New York 's John Simon says the Broadway adaptation of the comedy by 18 th -century French playwright Pierre Marivaux includes "rowdiness and bawdry [which] are as out of place as a belch in a declaration of love."
Indeed, Shakespeare would have been delighted by a Harrison rendition of many of the more than a thousand naughty passages that have so diligently been compiled by Eric Partridge in his Shakespeare's Bawdry . Partridge's are all instances of intentionally naughty entries.