Is it possbile to read masterpieces without bad language?
Absolutely; there is tons of classic literature without the use of foul language. Try Thomas Hardy, Willa Cather, Hawthorne, Henry James, Tolstoy…the list is enormous. I hardly ever encounter a classic story with foul language. These authors had a sense of class. And as far as Shakespeare is concerned his double meanings or inferences have never bothered me at all. I find them witty and rather humorous. That is just Shakespeare. As a side note: my favorite author, D.H.Lawrence, doesn’t use foul language on a whole. I don’t even think in Lady Chatterly’s Lover he uses it, unless you want to count the use of naming some body parts, foul. He was appalled by pure pornography or pornography’s sake, so I don’t think he used it to my knowlege…not like the F, S, or C words. He even wrote that Joyce was pure filth and pornographic and although, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, at that time in history, was banned, he never considered it truly ‘pornographic’. I don’t either. To me it seems now tame, t
