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But new this year is the musical "SHREW'D: Shakespeare's Bawdiest Comedy a with a Modern Twist." The world premiere, adapted by David Rice from the Bard's "Taming of the Shrew," moves the time and place to 1930s Chicago.

Allan Ramsay, on the other hand, made his bawdiest works widely available from an early stage in his literary career and, by including them in the first official publication of his poetry, accorded them their place in his literary canon.

What began, Schmidgall suggests, as one of the "bawdiest poetic houses of the nineteenth or any preceding centuries" transforms into the conservative, ceremonial space of the "cathedral" (145).

"Curses for Franco," for instance, invokes in all its crudeness the spirit of Francois Rabelais--perhaps the bawdiest of Renaissance writers--as well as the time-honored folk tradition of "the dirty dozens," the African American ritual of insult.

SIMON Cowell has said some X Factor hopefuls may have "blown their chances" after the bawdiest Bootcamp ever.

MARK JEFFERIES reporters@dailyrecord.co.uk SIMON Cowell has said some X Factor hopefuls may have "blown their chances" after the bawdiest Boot Camp ever.

The caldrons for that purpose were a necessary piece of travelling furniture; and a German who was using it for his brother, promised it to a friend, after it should have been employed for himself." Famously, some of the bawdiest stories were reserved for footnotes, often printed in Latin without an English translation, as in a legend about the "conjugal vigour" of Mahomet whose penis, in death, remained erect.

I laughed so hard as I read it that night that I could have been thrown out of the library (which actually did happen to me in second grade while reading The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.) Believe it or not, I wrote my master's thesis on the dirtiest and bawdiest piece Twain ever wrote.

-- The Golden Globes are typically Hollywood's bawdiest awards show -- "a wonderful mess,'' said co-host Tina Fey of this year's bash.

And if the censors are feeling generous, they'll slap an R rating on that show; Jillette is honest--and revealing--to a fault, and he delights in making even the bawdiest of us blush.