Well, DTG, I think the comedies probably started out a lot bawdier in production than our public school classes ever let on - after all, they were writ for a fairly crude Elizabethan audience, not for a typical uptight, sexually repressed school governing board!

The fairies as spaced out Goths sounds like an interesting directorial interpretation, though...

As inaccurate and deliberately anachronistic as it may have been, I absolutely loved "Shakespeare in Love" - and then I found out that Tom Stoppard was one of the screenplay authors, so no wonder! Stoppard is another playwright, who, like Shakespeare, is in love with language and with playing with words at multiple levels of meaning. Those of us mere mortals sometimes have to listen to or read the plays multiple times to catch all the puns or more serious imagery.