SuitabookSpanking Shakespeare
Jake Wizner
- Reading
- Because the humour is intentionally lewd and the ending’s detail is limited, preview the opening tone together or agree on a pause point. Revisit passages that distinguish comic exaggeration from genuine vulnerability.
- Themes
- Writing as self-presentation: Shakespeare records his senior year through a required memoir project and several written forms, hoping the work may bring respect and admiration. Writing appears both as self-expression and as a way to manage how others see him; the narrative’s comic exaggeration complicates its sincerity.
- Embarrassment and belonging: The book addresses embarrassment and belonging; the detail of how it is developed remains unclear. The book presents competing or mixed signals about this.
- Crude humour and teenage sexuality: The narration includes increasingly blunt sexual thoughts, masturbation, pornography references, erections, bowel humour and drug or alcohol use. The book leaves its stance open to more than one reading.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether the book’s jokes make embarrassment feel manageable or instead make other people’s discomfort into entertainment. Sexual references, masturbation, pornography, drug and alcohol use, and graphic bowel humour may merit attention.